Image Courtesy of the artist
David Janzen was born in Toronto in 1959 and moved to Alberta in 1966. He lived in Edmonton until 1979, when he relocated to Calgary to attend Alberta College of Art + Design - now Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) - graduating in 1983 with a major in painting and a minor in drawing. Janzen’s imagery addresses settlement, industry, the fragility of civilization’s dependence on technology, tenuously connected infrastructure(s) and the effect of human habitation on the horizon. After living in Calgary for 22 years, David Janzen returned to Edmonton in 2001.He maintains a studio at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre and works, part time, as exhibition coordinator at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts.