JEANIE TOMANEK
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS  

2007	    Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
	    Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, GA
	    Lyons View Gallery, Knoxville, TN
	    Atlanta Art07 House

2006        Body Sacred, An Exhibition Celebrating the Human Form, Knoxville, TN
            Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
            Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
	    Lyons View Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
	    Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA, 2 woman Show
				

2005	    Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ	
            Broward Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
            "Throws Like a Girl" (2 person show)
	    Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, "New x3", Asheville, NC
		

2004        Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Robert Ferst Center, Georgia Tech, "Surfaces"
	    LaGrange Biennial, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia
	    Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
	    Heaven Blue Rose Gallery, Roswell, Georgia
	    Mercer-Williams House, Savannah, Georgia	
	    Alliance Theater Christmas House, Atlanta, Georgia

2001-2003   Heaven Blue Rose Gallery, Roswell, Georgia
	    Eyedrum Holiday Show, Atlanta, Georgia		
            Lansdell Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
            North Fulton Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
        

2000	    Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gulfport, Mississippi
            Cerulean Gallery, Roswell, Georgia
            Atlanta College of Art: "Water"
	    Atlanta College of Art: "Confluence", 3 person show
            Public House Restaurant, Roswell, Georgia
            Atlanta Artist's Center, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
            Roswell Antique Mall Gallery, Roswell, Georgia

1999        Atlanta Artist's Center, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
            Roswell Fine Arts Alliance Genesis Show, Roswell, Georgia
	    North Fulton Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Roswell, Georgia

PUBLICATIONS

	Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008 "Connections: Literature for Composition", 
		illustration for Obedience and Rebellion, 	
	BOA Editions, 2007, Cover Art, Laurie Kutchins, "Slope of the Child Everlasting" 
	Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Land of Enchantment"
	Endicott Journal of the Mythic Arts, "The Heart's Desire, the Art of Jeanie Tomanek
	Miami Herald, "Stepping Up to the Palette"
	Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, "Throws Like a Girl"
	Poets, Artists, and Madmen, Poetry: "Addicts"
	The Birmingham Poetry Review, Poetry:	"Envoy"
        The Ledge, Poetry: "Exercise Among the Protestant Dead" 

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Throughout my adult life I have always painted—sometimes only one painting a year.  Several years ago I escaped corporate life.  Since then I have concentrated on developing my style and voice in my work. 

         I paint to explore the significance of ideas, memories, events, feelings, dreams and images that seem to demand my closer attention.  Some of the themes I investigate come first in poems I write.  Literature, folktales and myths often inspire my exploration of the feminine archetype.  My figures often bear the scars and imperfections, that, to me, characterize the struggle to become.

         In my work I use oils, acrylic, pencil and thin glazes to create a multi-layered surface that may be scratched through, written on, or painted over to reveal and excavate the images that feel right for the work. 

         In reclaiming and reconstructing areas of the canvas, the process of painting becomes analogous to having a second chance at your life, this time a little closer to the heart’s desire.