b'PARK AVENUE CAR SERIESWhen Janet moved to Manhattan from Chicago in 1965,Each car panel is itself etched, and sometimes painted with she was inspired by watching traffic on Park Avenue withautomotive enamel, so that the etching plate is itself de-buildings and trees reflected off the cars. The Park Avenueveloped as the work of art rather than simply a matrix for was her first extended project to celebrate New York andprinting secondary images. Hinged over car windows are New Yorkers by orchestrating print making with photogra- shaped etchings on paper that represent drivers and pas-phy and painting at an unprecedented scale.sengers unaware that they are being observed. These complex works have not been seen in public sinceAn extensive portrait of modern urban consumer culture, 1977whentheywereexhibitedintheUnionCarbidethe Park Avenue frieze celebrates car culture in keeping Building at 270 Park Avenue. The exhibition included a 70- with Pop and New Realism paintings and films with cars as foot long frieze of 14 horizontal stainless steel panels withicons. Panels 8, 9 and 10 from original Park Avenue series of 14 panels, 1977mixed media representations of car traffic on Park Avenue (repainted in 2018) as a modern procession in profile, as hieratic as memorial Etching on paper, etched and painted stainless steel (automotive paint) panel images of ancient Egyptian royalty. 28 x 59 inches (each panel)44 45'