Sticky Pictures examines and celebrates the evolving work of Montrealbased artist Janet Werner. In her paintings Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collagelike composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty gender psychology and emotion. Werners painterly operations are both unsettling and seductive revealing the conditions of perception and looking as passageways to understanding the intensity of the world at hand. Werners unique combination of abstraction fictional portraiture and the rich history of painting are explored in Sticky Pictures through texts by art and media historians as well as an interview with the artist.Janet Werners work has been featured in international solo exhibitions from New York to Los Angeles and as far away as Cape Town. Her work was included in the Prague Biennale in 2003 and is featured in the collections of the Musamp233eacutee national des beauxarts du Quamp233bec Musamp233e damp8217art contemporain in Montreal The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto Winnipeg Art Gallery the Canadian Embassy in Berlin the University of Lethbridge Owens Art Gallery in Sackville the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco and numerous private and corporate collections. Werner lives and works in Montreal.