PEREGRINATION

Janis Stemmermann is a visual artist and designer whose interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture installation, ceramics, textiles, and printmaking. She makes work influenced by decoration of domestic objects and the landscape. Her craft-based processes investigate primal forces of handmade objects, particularly as they blur the line in their function. Stemmermann received a BFA in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her studio practice has been supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in Ireland. Recently she has had two person exhibitions at The Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY, Tanja Grunert Gallery in Hudson NY and at The Re Institute in Millerton, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT, (2023), and Planthouse Gallery in New York, NY (2020), as well as an outdoor sculpture installation at Tanya Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY (2022). Based in Brooklyn since 1988, she now divides her time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Sharon, Connecticut. 

Russell Steinert received a B.A in Studio Art from Brown University and an M.A and M.F.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.  He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Vermont Studio Center.  He has participated in exhibitions at Tanja Grunert Gallery and Private Public Gallery in Hudson, New York, The Re Institute in Millerton, New York, Furnace Art On Paper Archive in Falls Village, Connecticut, group shows in New York City and exhibitions at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, California.  Russell moved to New York in 1985 to pursue a life in the visual arts, living and working in the art community of Williamsburg/Greenpoint in Brooklyn where was directly involved in the early, formative days of the creative community there. He works at present from a studio in Sharon, Connecticut, having moved from Brooklyn during the COVID pandemic.