Outdoor Art Gallery
@ North Shattuck
Featured Artist Profile
Jane L.
Dulay
Hometown: Berkeley, ca
Berkeley-based figurative artist Jane L. Dulay, daughter of Filipino immigrants, was born an American citizen in the Philippines, a U.S. occupied territory at the time, then spent her formative childhood years on Okinawa until she came to California for college during the Free Speech Movement. She met her spouse in Berkeley, a UC Berkeley graduate student at the time.
After years of living abroad, she finally Found It in North Berkeley, a place she would call home since 1978. She pursued an MS/MD from the Joint Medical Program: UC Berkeley-UCSF, establishing a psychiatry and psychoanalytic practice in Berkeley. Her two sons, conceived and raised in her North Berkeley home, were graduates of Berkeley HS. Her oldest son found his passion for coding art at Willard Middle School and runs his own digital media design company in Los Angeles. Her youngest son founded his first Indie Rock band with classmates at Berkeley High and is co-founder of the East Bay band Curling and Tokyo-based band Texas 3000 where he lives and works.
A self-directed artist, Jane spends full-time as an artist and grandmother. Jane, her sons, family, and friends are the models for her paintings, a visual testament to the multi-generational, creative, culturally diverse experiences found in Berkeley.
ART ON DISPLAY
Piece Name: Jojo, Patron Saint of Rock 'n Roll
My figures are personal, based on photos I took. I try to capture with paint a person’s soul, an unspoken feeling, a moment in time in the past that comes alive in the present.
Location: 37.87837, -122.26912 (near 1600 Shattuck Avenue in the median)
Piece Name: Jane, Patron Saint of Painting
Catholic iconography was very much a part of my childhood upbringing and source of comfort to many unknown and imagined fears. We live in a world with many real fears and anxieties that only heighten disconnection and a search for ways to connect that are safe. Painting figures with our current state of smartphones shows this irony of the need to connect yet simultaneously disconnect from reality with virtual reality.
Location: 37.87838, -122.26909 (near 1600 Shattuck Avenue in the median)