Harmony Gallery Artist Reception – Janet Roelle

Music and dance are firsthand material for Janet Roelle, who played orchestral music as a young person and took up ballet as an adult. Both feed "Harmony of Realism and Abstraction," her exhibition of paintings that try to put sound and movement on the surface. She moves among oil, ink, watercolor, acrylic and cold wax, and between realist and abstract treatment. Self-taught at first, Roelle took community classes at the Flint Institute of Arts in 1978, set painting aside to raise her children and came back to it in 2009, training since with several mentors. The reception is held in the Symphony Center atrium, where Sarasota Orchestra mounts its Harmony Gallery shows for each concert season.