Standing in a Forest Sculpture

Jana Charl, a native of Los Angeles, a dual US-Swiss citizen, currently resides on a remote 54,000-acre ranch in Central Oregon where she creates mixed media works and installations often incorporating materials salvaged from her surroundings. Her creative practice involves exploring a variety of media and techniques blurring the traditional lines dividing craft, commercial art, and fine art. She addresses feminist topics, and her most recent body of work focuses on symbolism derived from the natural world as a representation of the human experience. Her installations, paintings, and sculptures are published and exhibited worldwide: shown at art galleries, at SFMOMA, Tate Liverpool, Women’s Museum of California, and at venues staged simultaneously with the Venice Biennale, Frieze London, and Art Basel Miami.