IAC Artist Exhibits
Irondequoit Art Club Personal Exhibit Page - Jeanette Musliner
Born
in pre-war England, Jeanette Musliner has been drawing and painting
since the age of three. Living in Rochester, NY since the 1950’s, Ms.
Musliner has become one of the area’s most respected, accomplished, and
diversified artists, with a reputation that is expanding across the
country. Over the past forty years, her work has been exhibited at and
awarded ribbons in countless group and juried art shows and featured in
a variety of one person shows at Rochester area galleries. Specializing
in large realistic and impressionistic water colors, oils, and
acrylics, Ms. Musliner also paints detailed miniatures which have been
accepted in juried international shows in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey
and Washington, DC, garnering two "Best in Show" ribbons. She is also
well-known for her finely detailed ink and water color renderings of
homes, churches, bridges and schools, most of which are available only
by commission and held in private collections. For many years she
regularly illustrated feature articles by two local writers for The Irondequoit Post, the local weekly newspaper.
Ms.
Musliner finds her subject matter in the world around her, particularly
from travels to colorful parts of the world. She also enjoys drawing
the people she meets and finding ways to include them in her
landscapes. Most of her work tends to be impressionistic, capturing
unusual lighting or the particular mood in a landscape, sometimes en plein air,
more frequently using extensive files of her own photographs. She often
finds that the human element, an old house, barn, lighthouse, or even a
fence, helps the viewer relate to the places depicted, as well as being
a focal point for the composition.
Since
1973 Ms. Musliner has been a Signature Member of the Rochester Art
Club, one of the oldest continuously active art groups in the U.S. She
is also a member of the Webster Art Club; the Irondequoit Art Club, of
which she has been president six times; and the Genesee Valley Plein
Air Painters, which paints outdoors regularly.
Ms.
Musliner actively supports local charities with her talents, often
taking on unusual projects which illustrate her broad range as an
artist. She has donated numerous paintings for auction to support
public television and other charities, painted historical scenes on
antique windows as part of "The Windows Project" to raise money for the
West Irondequoit Foundation, and created two fanciful chairs for
charity auction. Most recently she finished a four-year project for the
Irondequoit Town Hall: a mural with thirteen vignettes spanning 150
years of town history. The mural was featured in The Irondequoit Post
as one of the highlights of the Town's 2005 accomplishments.
Samples of Ms. Musliner’s recent exhibits:
*
In January, 2006, twenty of her recent watercolors were displayed in a
one person show at the American Association of University Women club
house in Rochester.
* From January 15 to
February 5, 2006 the prestigious Miniature Art Society of Florida’s
International Show at Dunedin Art Center, Florida included four of her
miniatures.
* During December, 2006, Musliner will have three miniatures on display
with the Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of
Washington, D.C., at the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda, as well
as in a juried miniature show at the Jane Law Galleries on Long Beach
Island, New Jersey.
* Musliner was represented in the Plein Air Show in the gallery at the
Pittsford, NY Barnes and Noble in January, 2006, as well as in the
Webster and Irondequoit Annual Spring Shows, where she received awards.
* In October, 2006 Musliner had a painting exhibited in the Artful
Aging Exhibit at NTID of RIT, and was also represented at the Breast
Cancer Coalition Artrageous Art Auction.
* Coming soon: A woven coverlet designed and illustrated by Musliner to
raise money for the local senior center will be available for sale in
Irondequoit, NY.
* Her work appears on the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters web site at www.GVPAP.com.
* www.art-express.com. also carries her art work
* My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home on Mt. Hope Ave.
displayed 42 Musliner paintings during the months of January and
February, 2007.
Ms. Musliner holds MA and BA degrees in English from the University of Illinois and University of Rochester, respectively.