Ten years ago, Robert January (b. 1948) visited what he calls the “greatest outdoor art museum on earth,” southern Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer.  Inspired by figurative art he has seen there and at other prehistoric sites, January’s paintings, drawings and photographs are now gathered in a solo show at Connecticuts’s Fairfield University entitled Art & Human Consciousness.  On view through December 6, the project has been organized by Walsh Art Gallery director Diana Mille and is accompanied by a 40-page catalogue with an essay by Fairfield University professor Philip Eliasoph.

Published in Fine Art Connoisseur - The Premier Magazine for Informed Collectors on 11/6/09