Dark Mirror

Janet Fish is an American painter known for meticulously rendered still lifes of glass, water, and reflective surfaces that emerged from postwar realism. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she constructs compositions of transparent and translucent objects, drinking glasses, bottles, ice, rendered with an almost photographic precision that emphasizes the complex interplay of light, refraction, and shadow. Her work occupies a distinctly formal register, treating domestic glassware as a vehicle for investigating color, surface, and spatial illusion rather than narrative or metaphor.

Boston, MA, USA