Janet Scagnelli
"A career in detailed commercial art, combined with recent personal and world traumatic events has led me to create multiple series of paintings expressing chaos and serenity."
— Janet Scagnelli
From a series of 8.
All about the weeds I couldn’t kill and the plants I didn’t want to kill in my yard.
I felt such a victim, so I painted them and made them mine.

"Untitled," 2019, Watercolor, 18 x 22 inches with an accompanying 10 x 22 piece below

"Untitled," 2019, Watercolor, 18 x 22 inches with an accompanying 10 x 22 piece below
From a series of 4.
I captured stills from a video I shot, of photos and newspaper articles that I burned. Then drew them.

"Untitled," 2017, Charcoal, colored pencil, and ash from the burning of photos in the images, 18 x 24 inches

"Untitled," 2017, Charcoal, colored pencil, and ash from the burning of photos in the images, 18 x 24 inches

"Untitled," 2017, Charcoal, colored pencil, and ash from the burning of photos in the images, 18 x 24 inches

"Untitled," 2017, Charcoal, colored pencil, and ash from the burning of photos in the images, 18 x 24 inches
Painted in reaction to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris.

"Untitled," 2016, Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 inches
Painted in reaction to the Charlottesville Unite The Right Rally, 2017

"Untitled," 2018, Watercolor, grease pencil on Yupo paper, 24 x 36 inches
Painted in reaction to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris.
Memento Mori
Artwork created by Janet Scagnelli, film by Alan Perrow.