Jane Rubin is a Creative Director, Multi-media Artist, and Writer.

Basketball became a theme in Jane's work in 1992. Since 1998 Jane has been attending pro, college and streetball games, sitting courtside and drawing and painting the games while they are happening, without the use of photographic mediation. She has created hundreds of drawings and paintings of players both in action and posing for portraits. During recent years Jane's work has expanded to include other sports venues. Jane became interested in baseball in the mid-90's, and she began to sketch NY Yankees players live in 2006, attending games at Yankee Stadium and drawing the players
in action. Jane's interest in depicting these games originally emanates from her fond childhood memories of playing all types of games with friends in her backyard and in the various backyards of her neighborhood...

The work exhibited on janefirst.com is a small sampling from many pieces and represents the more accessible layers of this exploration. More can be viewed by contacting Jane.

Biography

Jane has exhibited paintings, drawings and multimedia installations in New York City and Los Angeles, including the 3rd Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Annuale, where she exhibited an x-rated architectural installation. She has also given readings and performances of her erotic fiction writing in both New York City and LA. Commercially, Jane has also worked for over a decade as a Creative Director, Art Director and Writer in advertising and publishing. She is an award-winning Creative Director and formed her own ad agency in 2001. From 1996-98 Jane taught "Media Communications," a conceptual, mixed-media seminar, at the School of Visual Arts.

Jane's agency, Totalview Marketing, focuses on financial branding and advertising for investments banks, funds, brokerages, trading technology and trading education companies. In 2005 Jane passed the Series 3 Futures and Options on Futures Licensing Exam and and the Series 30 Futures Branch Manager Licensing Exam, enabling her to bring industry-specific knowledge to institutional and retail clients in that arena. Ad Campaigns that Jane has created start to finish have appeared in leading financial and trading industry magazines such as Stocks, Futures, and Options, Wall Street & Technology, and Active Trader.

Jane attended Barnard College of Columbia University from 1982-84 and received her BA from Barnard College, graduating Cum Laude and with Department Honors in Program in the Arts.

While still an undergraduate at Barnard Jane was invited to join the Graduate Drawing Seminar in the Columbia University Master of Fine Arts Program.

In addition, Jane was the Set Designer for The Columbia University Experimental Theatre Company, The Columbia Players, and for theater productions at Barnard College. After graduating from Barnard Jane spent a year in New York City creating set designs for a number of multi-media theater pieces and also had a solo show of large-scale, cinematic "Bad Girl" drawings and painted-on photographs at TIn Pan Alley, a well-known music-poetry-art space in Manhattan.

Jane received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where she was accepted into both the Graduate FIne Art and Graduate Design programs. At CalArts Jane was awarded Graduate Teaching Assistantships in Drawing, Painting and Color Theory.

Jane was selected as an Artist by The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and she completed the Whitney I.S.P. during 1989-90. During 1989, she also wrote art reviews for Art issues and Artcoast Magazines.

During 1989-90 Jane also curated and published a book that she titled "SEX," copyright Jane Rubin 1990, and she promoted the book to art world institutions during 1990-91. SEX was a hand-made curatorial and artist's book containing Jane's own drawings and writing as well as the work of several other emerging and well-known artists.)

In 1997 Jane followed up SEX with "Jane's LOVE," a magazine that again contained her own images and writing as well as those of several other contributors.

Growing up Jane was simultaneously involved in music, dance and visual art and was encouraged to pursue each one professionally. In her teens her primary focus became visual art. She had been drawing and painting on her own since she was a child, and she received her first formal art education including figure drawing and painting, analytical drawing and color theory at The Carnegie-Mellon Institute Pre-College Summer Program in Art.

Jane first showed her work in New York City in 1983, at The James Chapel of Columbia University Theological Seminary.

Jane was born and raised in York, Pennsylvania.

By Jane Rubin, Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.