Janet Monafo is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1940. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Evansville Museum have featured Janet Monafo's work in the past.Janet Monafo's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 225 USD to 1,250 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,250 USD for STILL LIFE WITH BROWN BANANAS, sold at Freeman's in 2008. Janet Monafo has been featured in articles for Southwest Art and . The most recent article is BEST OF THE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAINS written for Southwest Art in November 2010.
Trompe l'oeil illusionism goes back to antiquity, so its conventions are well established. Yet it has evolved from the straightforward visual trickery
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..These quotidian household objects are transformed by Monafo through a vivid choreography of carefully organized shapes and patterns of light and shadow....
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..Janet Monafo's still life images transform everyday objects into grand arrangements of light and color, hue and texture, order and disorder, memory and metaphor...
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