Janice Gordon is a New York City artist who works in diverse media, including sculpture, 
collage, assemblage and installation, with an emphasis on incorporating found objects 
and creating many layered surfaces.  

She received a B.A. in English literature at Whitman College, a small liberal arts 
college in Washington,  and also studied art history at University of Loyola in Rome, 
Italy. Living in Rome for some years, she became enamored of medieval and renaissance 
art. When she returned to the United States,  she lived and studied in New York City, 
receiving a graduate degree in psychology from the New School Graduate Faculty. Her art 
studies were spent in New York at the Art Students League for four years, with guidance 
from the master collage artist and painter, Leo Manso. 

Janice’s work has been exhibited in various venues in New York, including the New York 
Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., the Hudson River 
Museum, The Heckscher Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the 
Provincetown Art Association and Museum , The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and 
Commonweal, a California research institute specializing in health and environmental issues.  
Images of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The Sciences 
magazine and Provincetown Arts. She has received numerous awards including a Concordia 
Foundation Fellowship for residency at the Millay Colony, Full Fellowships at the Vermont Studio 
Center and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Award.

Her present series of work, Matters of the Heart, explores the metaphorical and biomedical 
aspects of the human heart.

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