JENNIFER JANESKO
MG Publishing, Germany ***
Talented Kansas-based artist Janesko’s previous output has tended to see her labelled as a sort of ‘alternative Olivia’, so it’s good to see that she has decided to offer something different with this new collection, which focuses on her feature studies and sketches.
There is quite a range of different styles to be found in the book’s 120-plus studies of pretty faces and figures, and fans of Jennifer’s books and calendar art will undoubtedly find this book’s Artist Demonstration section fascinating, with its complete record, in more than 40 photographs, of the production of a painting called Frostbite. There’s also an appendix providing the artist’s notes on every image in the book — again, great info for the enthusiast.
In comparison with the latex-laden content of modern fetish imagery, one would have to say that Janesko’s oeuvre is basically fetish lite. And in fairness, the content of this book, because of its focus on faces, has rather less kinky content even than a collection of her pin-up paintings.
But as some studies here indicate, when she does apply her talents to ‘our’ territory, she clearly understands what it is that stimulates the pervy mindset. Which means: if she ever were to devote an entire book to fetish imagery, it would surely be a cracker. TM (Reviewed Dec 2004)
www.janesko.com
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