• Exhibitions
  • Current
  • Exhibitions Archive
  • How to Exhibit With ECVA
  • Calls to Artists
• The Artists Registry
  • About the Artists Registry
  • Search for an Artist
  • Membership Information
  • Join the Artists Registry
• Image & Spirit
  • Image & Spirit Blog Archive
  • Intersections @ ECVA
  • Visio Divina Archive
• Calls to Artists
• News

Janet McKenzie

Pieta - the Suffering

Oil on board
48"x24"

Artist Statement: Pieta-the Suffering symbolizes a mother’s greatest loss, that of her child, here depicted as Mary and Jesus. No mother should ever have to bear this but many are forced to including my own grandmother.

Bio: Janet McKenzie’s art is regularly carried in demonstrations across the country in support of racial justice, gender equality and the rights of the LGBTQ community. The late Sr. Wendy Beckett selected her painting, Jesus of the People, First Place winner of The National Catholic Reporter’s global competition Jesus 2000. Revealed on the Today Show her dark interpretation of Christ (modeled by a woman) received fierce opposition. Her inclusive image of Christ is now established as a true and relevant icon of this era.

Holiness and the Feminine Spirit – the Art of Janet McKenzie, published by Orbis Books, won the 2010 First Place Award for Spirituality from the Catholic Press Association.

She has received commissions from Harvard University, St. Mary’s University of MN and Loyola School, NYC, among others. Collections include the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, VT, the Archdiocese of Chicago and Carlow University, Pittsburgh, among others. Janet McKenzie will be a presenter at The Universal Christ: Another Name for Every Thing (Richard Rohr, Jacqui Lewis, John Dominic Crossan) March 28-31, 2019 Albuquerque Convention Center, New Mexico.