About

Janell Grace is an emerging assemblage artist currently living in Santa Ana, California. Her work brings together themes of memory, compartmentalization, mortality, and the passage of time. Although she'd drawn and painted since childhood, as an adult she struggled to find purpose for her art. She was more than halfway through completing her art degree when she dropped out of school. She wondered if she was truly an artist at all. 

One day at a flea market, everything came into focus. She picked up an old medical textbook and was suddenly inspired by the vintage illustrations. She envisioned them dimensionally, like the pop-up books and dioramas from her childhood. She quickly accumulated vintage ephemera, bones, dried flowers, old jewelry, rusted metals, clocks, dolls, and old wooden boxes. Objects that displayed history and imperfection. Objects that were fragile, and yet resilient. She understood these things. She’d now found her place inside tiny anxious worlds of wood, paper, flowers, and glue.

Janell's work has been included in several group shows within the dark art community, including the current TRASH Group Show at The Dark Art Emporium in Long Beach, CA.  Her work will appear at the gallery in the upcoming Tiny Terrors 5 group show opening June 18th, 2022.