ABOUT JANICA’S PHOTOGRAPHS:

CECELIA CONDIT, Amazing Author and Cinematographer

“I feel like in Janica’s work, the Earth and the Body are personally connected”.

Constance White, Artist, Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“I have come to think of Janica as a seeker - looking for truths in life and thus her work. Something we do as humans

is try to make sense of the place in which we find ourselves; we pose questions and look for answers. Janica puts

the inquiry right before our eyes, showing to us, in most cases, the same objects we see all around us except that

they have been transformed by her lyrical way of seeing. Her work frames and makes visible the elemental material of

our sensuous imaginations and primal emotions. From one view, her combined-image pieces seem to propose deep

connections or continuity amount things in the world that appear on their surface discontinuous and unrelated and,

from another, they seem like free-associating components of allegories of the mind and senses. The color can be at

once luscious, chilling; the rendering of space can be voluptuous and stark……At the core of Janica’s unwavering

dedication to working is an absolute need to be doing the work no matter what.

Her tenacity, passion, and creative imagination promise to bring us more of this beautiful and profound inquiry….”.

Jay Jensen, Chief Curator of the Contemporary Museum of Art in Honolulu; The Honolulu Museum

“..In her work, Yoder makes a highly personal poetic journey which begins with the camera as recorder of objective reality

but shifts towards the subjective as she delves into the elusive realm of her own psyche. Whiles the images

she uses function as symbols, deeply connected to her and drawn from her environment and life, their significance

for her is often unconscious. Yoder says she doesn’t like to analyze her images lest

the tension of the work be diminished, and she acknowledges that the works will have their own meaning for viewers.

Yoder focuses attention on the extraordinary richness of the everyday world and at the same time transcends her

subjects by creating a timeless space in which the visual and the ethereal, the physical and the spiritual are united and revealed……”

Jane Livingston, Author and former Chief Curator of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington DCCatalog of Janica’s One Person Exhibit

“Clearly a major transformation has taken place from the lucid boldly placed imagery of Black Hands with Doll to the Chicken Series—-and not only in our

emotional experience. If anything, the photographs of the chickens, with all their radically uncontrolled sense of composition, their

oddly combined wildness and clumsiness and power—-are exactly what one wants them to be. Yoder’s several unusualy diverse kinds of work are

united by a temperamental curiosity about what the camera will do with any subject”…