Artist Reception: September 7 from 4-6pm
Alexander, Rob and Janice are a family of artists based in Truro. Janice Redman is a sculptor born in Huddersfield, England whose work is rooted in her everyday experience and personal history. Using domestic objects, Janice works intuitively and often repetitively. The act of making becomes a ritual, a process of revealing that which lies beneath the surface of the everyday. Her work can be found at the Clark Gallery, Lincoln and Farm projects, Wellfleet.
Rob Dutoit paints and draws Cape Cod landscapes which capture a land of wildness and subdued beauty. As art writer Sue Harrison observed, Dutoit “captures the dark and light inherent in the drama of the Cape.” Rob’s mark making are expressions of breath and presence. Rob is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. Janice and Rob met in Provincetown after Janice was a two year fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Both artists have an extensive history of showing in Provincetown and beyond and are in collections nationally and internationally. Alexander Dutoit is the son of Janice and Rob whose interests range from being an avid bird enthusiast, to photography. Alexander shoots film with 35mm and medium format cameras.
The three have a respect and connection to their natural surroundings. At home, they raise chickens and have a large vegetable garden. Janice swims daily, Alexander and Rob work directly from nature. Their daily life is artistic in everything they do. All three are rooted in craftsmanship. Janice comes from a family of makers, her mother a seamstress and a lace maker and her father restored antique clocks. Rob is also a master framer. Alexander meticulously prints his own photographs in his darkroom in their home in Truro. They are all process oriented, meaning the process is as crucial as the end result.
The idea began in 2020 with a visit to Janice Redman’s studio from Susie Nielsen of Farm Projects for an upcoming show Janice would be having. After the visit Janice casually took Nielsen through the house introducing each family member including their dog Willoboughy, and Meatball the guinea pig. Nielsen was struck by the beautiful intersections and crossover their living and art practices had. As important as each of their artistic skills are there is something compelling about their relationships to each other and their daily lives. That is an aspect of the artist we don’t often get to see.
We found a common theme of black and white for them to flourish individually. Janice with her obsessive monoprints that she makes in phases of intensity in her studio in Truro. We chose Rob’s landscape drawings for the rich texture, and Alexander’s black and white photographs. Alexander’s work is the biggest conduit because half of the the work chosen are intimate landscapes with no horizon line whose texture relates to Rob’s landscapes and the other half are these slightly absurd compositions, which relate to Janice’s monoprints. All of them rich with texture and light. Through the different mediums and subject matter it is impossible not to make connections between the work of these three family member whose daily lives mimic their making.
