Janette G. Sanchez is a mixed-media Mexican-America artist currently based in Northeast Texas. Born in Riverside California she began exploring clay as a medium which could serve both artistic and functional purposes as early as 2009. Winning Best in Show for the ceramics category for the 2011 Riverside County High School Art Show, propelled Sanchez to continue to study the ceramic arts for the following three years at Richland College in Dallas, Texas starting in 2012 under the leadership of Jen Rose; for whom she also worked as a studio assistant. While at Dallas college Sanchez was able to explore the limits of clay as a medium and learn the delicate chemistry involved throughout the process of ceramic and glaze making.
Janette later obtained a Bachelors of Art degree with Art Honors from the tier one research institution University of California Santa Barbara in 2019 where she studied under many notable contemporary artists, including Kip Fulbeck, Kim Yasuda, and Laurel Beckman. With their guidance she began to focus on the use of mixed materials as a main form of contemporary art research. After working extensively with various mediums, Janette's return to clay was something that developed naturally while exploring the primal processes of earth, water, air, and fire, that are needed to produce ceramic wares; tied together through a knowledge of horticulture gained from generations of family traditions. It was the genuine compliment to a life-long passion with nature; creating a balance in the work that one would assume was purposeful but was in fact rather kismet.
Sanchez's art practice is reflective of the social, political, and environmental experiences from having grown up as a first-generation queer Chicana millennial. Often informed by current events and analog encyclopedic references- her work explores the parallels of natural materials with cultural influence. Attempting a display of a diasporic culture representation, the work often intends to recondition perspectives on what it means to be of both Native and Colonizing descent. Utilizing the horticulture knowledge gained from family and higher education, depictions of plants are chosen for their representations and meanings.
In the natural order, ecosystems thrive through balance and diversity. Plants do not recognize borders and will go to great lengths to ensure future survival; Thriving and decomposing are equally important and only become issues when one outweighs the other.
Janette Sanchez is currently working as a florist and lives 30 minutes outside of Dallas in the mild country where she listens to trains, watches birds with her cat Minerva, hoards plants, and looks at stars.
Janette later obtained a Bachelors of Art degree with Art Honors from the tier one research institution University of California Santa Barbara in 2019 where she studied under many notable contemporary artists, including Kip Fulbeck, Kim Yasuda, and Laurel Beckman. With their guidance she began to focus on the use of mixed materials as a main form of contemporary art research. After working extensively with various mediums, Janette's return to clay was something that developed naturally while exploring the primal processes of earth, water, air, and fire, that are needed to produce ceramic wares; tied together through a knowledge of horticulture gained from generations of family traditions. It was the genuine compliment to a life-long passion with nature; creating a balance in the work that one would assume was purposeful but was in fact rather kismet.
Sanchez's art practice is reflective of the social, political, and environmental experiences from having grown up as a first-generation queer Chicana millennial. Often informed by current events and analog encyclopedic references- her work explores the parallels of natural materials with cultural influence. Attempting a display of a diasporic culture representation, the work often intends to recondition perspectives on what it means to be of both Native and Colonizing descent. Utilizing the horticulture knowledge gained from family and higher education, depictions of plants are chosen for their representations and meanings.
In the natural order, ecosystems thrive through balance and diversity. Plants do not recognize borders and will go to great lengths to ensure future survival; Thriving and decomposing are equally important and only become issues when one outweighs the other.
Janette Sanchez is currently working as a florist and lives 30 minutes outside of Dallas in the mild country where she listens to trains, watches birds with her cat Minerva, hoards plants, and looks at stars.