Award-winning artist Janae Corrado serves as a professor of Art at the Trinity River Campus of Tarrant County College in Ft. Worth, Texas. When Janae isn't engaging students in the arts and professing her love for the works of Mucha, Vermeer, Klimt, and van Eyck, she can be found in her studio painting dreamlike and surreal images

The narratives within my artwork reflect the fragile balance of life and death with a fusion of personal experience and mythos. I have two separate bodies of work that I am currently exploring.

My vanitas series, like many of those within art history, is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Rather than incorporating symbols of wealth, I focus on symbols of ephemerality (flora, insects). The series is also about rebirth - we are never truly "gone" once we pass, our spirit and energy are reborn within all those we touch. 

My insect tessellation series opens the eyes of the viewer to the smallest of our animal kingdom. As a top food chain organism, we as humans often overlook and underappreciate the presence of insects and arachnids. Pesky bugs buzz around us, and some come with an obligatory sting, bite, get into our food, or at times just creep us out. But these seemingly insignificant organisms play a much grander role in our well-being. This series is intended to confront the viewer with organisms at a scale that is far greater than their original size, allowing the viewer to appreciate the delicate and intricate anatomy of these tiny beings. The panels of this series are triangular shaped, allowing for opportunities to tesselate their installation in infinite varying geometric arrangements.