Jana Brubaker

Honored Artist 2005


"Bee Spit" Acrylic, Photocopy transfer and Collage on Canvas
32"x30"


If Woman is Other, then what is Girl? Perhaps because I am the youngest of six girls, I have long been searching for just that definition! My current work looks for patterns in family history and builds on an internal narrative as I explore some of the challenges, limitations, exuberance, mischief, trauma, and joys of being girl in our culture. Sometimes I like to use the metaphor of a dandelion for Girl: Is she a weed, or a flower? The answer to that question might depend on whether it is posed of a gardener, or a bee...

Jana earned her BFA from the University of Utah, and is presently working on her MFA at the University of Idaho.

For more information visit: http://www.6other.com