where the light gets in
oil on linen

Janet Warner, Paintings

Exhibit: Where The Light Gets In

April 17 to May 11, 2026
Keyes Gallery

About the artist
Janet Warner is an artist and educator based in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated with an MFA in 2017 from Western Connecticut State University, and is an Adjunct Professor of Studio Arts at three institutions. She teaches color theory, design, painting, and drawing at Quinnipiac University, Gateway Community College, and Community College of Rhode Island. She has actively shown her work in group shows throughout Connecticut, New York, and other areas. Her studio is in Erector Square where Janet’s grandma and her sisters worked during WWII.

Janet’s art practice has been focused on a nonobjective exploration of color and color relationships. "Every day is exactly the same" was one of the first paintings Janet created when she transitioned to a triangular tessellation design from her previous overlapping circles. This design shift creates an illusion of color folding in and out of space due to subtle color variations. This piece was the first one where she saw the folding happening, and it intrigued her enough to continue working with this design. She has been working with the tessellation of triangles for over a year, examining how the subtle shifts in colors and values alter the paintings within a similar design. Janet says that sometimes she does not see it as just a one-color scheme throughout the whole piece, but instead small clusters of color groupings inside the whole. Focusing solely on color has expanded her understanding of color space, enabling a deeper exploration of her relationship with color.