Janet Eager
Krueger back to
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 Janet
grew up in San Antonio and attended
Alamo Heights High School. She
obtained her BFA in art history from
the University of Texas at Austin in
1975, and her MFA in painting from
UTSA in 1998.
She is an Associate Professor of Art
at Texas A&M International
University in Laredo, Texas.
Her work is in many private and
several corporate collections,
including:
Laredo National Bank
Texas A&M International University
The University of Texas at San
Antonio
USAA
USAA Life
Valero Energy
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation.
Janet is also a founder and
President of the Board of Directors
of the non-profit organization Hecho
en Encinal. This organization,
located in Encinal, Texas is
dedicated to bringing arts and
humanities programming and projects
to rural South Texas.
She is married to rancher, George
Krueger, also of San Antonio and an
Alamo Heights alum. She and George
have lived on his family's ranch
near Encinal, Texas for twenty-six
years. Their two children, Will and
Kate attend the University of Texas
at Austin.
"Rural life is increasingly
considered an irrelevant blip on the
American cultural screen. The
agricultural perspective is rejected
as a subject by contemporary artists
as sentimental romanticism or
reinvented as moribund
iconographical markers in a
post-modern surrealism. But for
those who still live on the land, a
daily personal relationship with
nature is a concrete reality that
goes beyond the understanding of the
weekend environmental tourist.
Indeed, environmental tourism and
recreation are for most people the
only remaining means of interpreting
nature. Ironically these new routes
to "nature" have come to serve as
important sources of income for the
struggling family farm and ranch.
My work reflects a marriage not only
in the conventional sense, between
husband and wife, but a commitment
to the land and to the life as well.
Ranching and raising a family in
South Texas is no picnic at
Enchanted Rock. It is not a walk
down a discreetly graveled path in
the "primitive" area of some state
park. It is the long haul down an
unpaved road, the drought, the flood
and the isolation. It encompasses
all the characteristics which modern
society mourns as lost:
responsibility, commitment, wonder,
and peace of mind.
I like to think of myself as an
interpreter between two cultures: a
representative of a remnant society
that still exists within the larger
urban clamor of the American scene.
Lately my work has taken a turn for
the literary. Suddenly, every thing
I see seems to have a certain
mythological resonance. I believe it
is an appropriate way to take a new
look at the old myth that is Texas
ranch life."
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"Weedeater",
48 x 54 inches, Oil on Polyfiber,
from the Nuevo Mythology Series,
2004.
"Study for Vulcan's
Apprentice"
Gouache, 5 1/4" X 5 1/2"
"Study for Edith Hamilton"
Gouache, 6 1/2" X 7"
"Meleager," Oil on Polyfiber, 24" X
36" Statement:
"Study for
Satyrs After the Hunt"
Gouache, 5" X 7 1/2"
Study for Hercules' Uncle Gilbert,
gouache, 7" X 4"
"Study for Saturn's
Sous-chef: Bub"
Gouache, 8" X 4" |
