Janet Parke

. . . was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Genetically inclined toward music and theatre, she played piano, sang, danced, and performed in musical theatre throughout her school years. Of all the performing arts, she is most passionate about ballet and has spent the first 40-something years in its pursuit.

Janet first became interested in fractals in 1996, after seeing a friend's ink-jet print. Fascinated by the fractal's colors and shapes, but handicapped by a very slow computer, she at first spent more time exploring others' online fractal galleries than making her own images. After a hardware upgrade, and the release of new fractal generation software, she began creating her own images. In the beginning she created works solely for her own pleasure. When she was invited to exhibit and sell her work in local (Memphis, Tennessee) galleries and art festivals, her perspective changed from enthusiastic dabbler to serious artist.

Since 1982, Janet has taught ballet and pointe at Ballet Memphis School. She also directs the Ballet Memphis Junior Company and has also choreographed more than 60 works for student and professional dancers. She continues to be fascinated by and explore the ways in which her background and experience in the performing arts inspire the shapes, textures and movement of her visual art.

• "The Art of Infinity", Nature in Art Museum, Twigworth, Gloucester, UK, 2007
• "La Mar de Numeros", City of the Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain, 2007
• "Unbounded", solo exhibition, Germantown Performing Arts Centre, Germantown, Tennessee, 2007
• "Arte Fractal: belleza y matematicas", International Congress of Mathematicians / Conde Duque, Madrid Spain, 2006
• "Echoes of Infinity", solo exhibition, Levy Gallery, Buckman Fine Arts Center, Memphis, Tennessee, 2004
• "Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Visual Art", Holtzman Art Gallery � Towson University, Towson, Maryland, 2002
• "Digital Creation Awards 5th Anniversary Exhibition", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
• "2001.1 Digital Salon", Stele Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2001
• "The Frontier Between Art and Science", Granada, Valladolid, and Salamanca, Spain; Lyon and Anglet, France; Buenos Aires, La Plata, and Resistencia, Argentina; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Vienna, Austria; Tokyo, Japan; 2000-present
• "Infinite Art � Painting With Numbers", Jack Kenner Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, 2000
• "Elysium", solo exhibition, Levy Gallery, Buckman Fine Arts Center, Memphis, Tennessee, 1999

• Award of Excellence, Toray Digital Creation Awards, 2000

• SOS/ACORN, Memphis, Tennessee