Janis Stemmermann is a visual artist and designer whose interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, textiles, ceramics and printmaking. Creating immersive environments of individual, modular works, Stemmermann explores how objects move between—and are recontextualized by—natural and domestic spaces.
Stemmermann received a BFA in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in Ireland. Janis is the Creative Director and master printmaker at Russell Janis, a Brooklyn-based project space, collaborating on multi-medium projects with various artists. She is currently the Chair of the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Foundation. Based in Brooklyn since 1988, she now divides her time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Sharon, Connecticut.
Recent Exhibitions and Projects
Talk Shop 3.0, Verse Work/Shop, Redhook, NY, group exhibition, October 15 - December 23, 2023
Threads and Territories, Sudestada Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, group exhibition, September 16 - 30, 2023
Cut To Length, Furnace Art On Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT, solo exhibition, April 29 - May 28, 2023
Players Constitute The Pieces, Planthouse Gallery, NY, NY. Solo exhibition/ Louise Eastman & Janis Stemmermann collaboration, April 13 - May 14, 2023
Tetonic Threads/20 Women Artits From Iceland and New York, Mana Contemporary, Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ, group exhibition, September 11 - 24, 2022
The Devine Sculpture, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY, group outdoor sculpture exhibition, site specific installation of “Weighted Tarp (over woodpile)” June 4 - Sept 4, 2022
Carnival, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY, group exhibition, July 12- August 14 2022
Fragmentary Blue, Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchiss School, Lakeville, CT, group exhibition, May/June 2022
First Chapter, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY, group exhibition, April/May 2022
Fabricae, Russell Janis Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Two person collaboration/exhibit with Annie Coggan, Feb/March 2022
Summer Invitation III, White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts, Holmes NY. Outdoor site specific installation, group exhibition, 2021
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution,Resistance and Activism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY 2021-2022, group exhibition, Victory Garden Collective Miss 2017
Tree to Tree, Planthouse Gallery, NY, NY, solo exhibition, 2021
Fragile, Planthouse Gallery, NY,NY group exhibition, 2020
Miss Democracy, Planthouse Gallery, NY, NY, group exhibition, 2020
Revisiting Sculptures: 1991-1993
Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
solo exhibition/Part I in Winter Light Installation Series, 2019
Your Hands Were Making Artifacts
Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
group exhibition, 2019
In the Steps of Folly Cove, Visiting Artist/Lecturer/Exhibition, Francis Colburn Gallery/ University of Vermont Art and Art History Department, Burlington, Vermont, 2019
Janis Stemmermann Ceramics, The Ace Hotel Gallery Annex, New York NY, 2018
The Art of Collaboration, The Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven CT groupshow, 2018
Just Under 100/New Prints Summer 2017, International Print Center of New York, NY group show, 2017
Say A Little Prayer For U.S., Planthouse Gallery, NY, NY group show, 2017
In the Steps of Folly Cove/Artist Print Invitational, Russell Janis Gallery,Brooklyn,NY, Curator/Printmaker/Artist group show, 2017
A Sense of Place, South Hampton Arts Center, South Hampton, NY group show, 2017
Victory Garden, Plant House Gallery, NY, NY group show, 2016
Marigold, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, two-person collaboration/exhibit 2016
A Thousand Rainy Days, Plant House Gallery, NY, NY 4 person exhibit, 2016
Indigo Harvest, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, two-person collaboration/exhibit, 2015
Car and Blanket: Pattern, Form, And Memory, Brooklyn, NY, multimedia project, 2015
Clay and Cochineal, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, two person collaboration/exhibit, 2015
Paper Reveries, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY, group show, 2015
Fellowships and Awards
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship/residency, July 2014
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant Recipient, 1993
Tyrone Guthrie Center, Fellowship/Residency, 1993
Vermont Studio Center Scholarship/Residency, 1990, 1991
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art BFA Sculpture, 1986
The University of New Hampshire Undergraduate studies, 1981-1983
Alliances of Independent Colleges of Art New York Studio Program Fall semester 1985
Professional
Russell Janis, Brooklyn, NY Creative Director 2013-Present
Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation, NY, NY, Board Chair 2020-Present
Acorn Concepts, Brooklyn, NY Designer/Partner 2006-Present
Cache Inc, NY, NY Director of Design and Print, 2008-2013
Brooklyn Handknit, Brooklyn, NY Founder/Designer/Partner 1996-2006
Spacial Etc, Brooklyn, NY. Creative Director/Partner 1998-2006
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Collaborative Printmaker/Founder of Visting Artist Collaborative Printmaking Program 1992-1993
Collaborative Printmaker, Brooklyn, NY 1990-1998, 2014-present
Catherine Mosley/Robert Motherwell, New York, NY/Greenwhich CT Printmaking Assistant 1987-1991