Aislinn Janek is an NYC-based artist who explores memory, language, and time. Influenced by her experiences living and traveling abroad—particularly in Czech Republic, France, and Japan—her practice examines human universalities and how cultural and linguistic barriers shape identity and perception. 

Through a restrained palette of neutrals, Janek’s work embraces subtlety and texture, using acrylic paint and meticulously sewn thread to create layered compositions. The sewn elements function as both connective tissue and rupture, representing the ways memory is stitched together yet always shifting. Repetition and obsession play a crucial role in her process, revealing the interplay between routine, impermanence, and transformation.

Her latest body of work continues this exploration, questioning how time materializes through daily habits and how the familiar becomes unknowable through repetition. Janek does not seek to provide answers but instead invites the viewer to linger in the in-between—the space where the known dissolves into the unknown.