Baker Artist Portfolios

Janet Olney is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and installation. Through abstraction, she explores the human condition and aspects of contemporary life that influence our perceptions of reality.

Olney is the recipient of an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Marcella Brenner Grant for Faculty Research, and the Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. She was a recent fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a resident at the Facebook AIR program (Washington, D.C.), where she created a permanent installation. Her recent projects include "Night and Day," an installation at VisArts in Rockville, MD, and "Rupture," a two-person show at Montgomery College in Silver Spring, MD. Her work was included in "Abstraction," a four-person exhibition at C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore. She teaches studio art at MICA in Baltimore, MD.