Kary Janousek

Winner of the Gretchen Kottke Gallerist’s Award in this year’s annual The 64th Midwestern at The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum, Friedli Gallery is proud to present a body of her work for this incredible show!

Featuring experimental ambrotypes, that involve layering, hand embellishment, and colored stained glass. This exhibition of work will also feature some select tintype photographs in this series called “Surviving Silver”.

Born near the Ohio river. Kary has always had a great love of history, fashion, music, creative writing, and art. While she has dabbled in many of these fields, Kary never had the luxury of a formal education in fine arts or photography. Kary learned the wet plate collodion process in the Autumn of 2019 After modeling for a series of ambrotypes. She fell in love with the unique quality of the resulting images, and hasen’t looked back. 

Kary lives in Fargo North Dakota where she operates her natural Light Victorian studio part-time and sells vintage and antique hats. Kary often travels to historical sites and museums, making the past present for rural communities across the Dakota’s. 

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Check out Kary’s website at Kary Janousek portfolio website (zenfoliosite.com)

Heather Friedli

Heather Friedli is best known for her contemporary impressionist oil paintings, depicting her family heritage and the land in which she lives. Bold brush strokes and brilliant colors light up scenes of cloudscapes, water, and native flora. Many pieces are created in the context of her wilderness adventures; she often brings her paints outdoors to create work that shares with the viewer her experience of immersion in the landscape. Within these colorful works, Heather explores the spiritual world through the lens of culture and lived experience of place. Heather’s work is creative, soulful, bold, and powerful.
Heather’s work is an effort to synthesize her love and experience in the natural world, and wilderness adventure travel. Those experiences, being out in the world seeing the beauty and power of nature are represented in large scale paintings. She paints with a passion for the land, looking around and internalizing the colors and expressing them onto canvas. Working in a large scale is not only an expression of what she sees, but also becomes a physical dance with her painting. The movement and rhythms in these works are her own unique dance with the land around her.

Heather Friedli was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005. In 2010 Heather Thru-Hiked the Appalachian Trail which upon completion inspired her to continue her work as an artist concentrating on painting the natural world. She currently is enjoying life in Saint Paul with her husband Ben and sons Orion and Sirius.

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