About
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, and currently based in Astoria, New York, Aislinn Janek exhibits internationally and has participated in artist residencies in the Czech Republic, France, and Japan. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, site-specific installations, and institutional contexts.
Janek’s practice emphasizes process, material sensitivity, and conceptual restraint. Working across painting and textile-based media, she creates contemplative works that reflect on time, care, and the human desire to understand one’s place within the world. Alongside her visual practice, Janek performs stand-up comedy and writes about humor, failure, and process on Substack.
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Methods and Concepts
Aislinn Janek is a visual artist whose work emerges from a deep connection to textiles, repetition, and the quiet labor of care. Through minimalist black-and-white compositions and mixed-media processes, including dyeing, sewing, batik, acrylic, and ink, her work explores how identity is shaped over time through routine, memory, and embodied experience.
Influenced by the divine feminine and traditionally domestic forms of making, Janek treats textile processes as both material and metaphor. Stitching becomes language. Dye becomes a record. Repetition becomes devotion. These methods reflect a sustained inquiry into how meaning is formed not through spectacle, but through attention.