About

Some artists are trained. Janae Salinas is called.

Self-taught and uncompromising, Janae creates abstract and contemporary works that don't just ask to be looked at. They demand to be felt. Rooted in the emotional vocabulary of color, movement, and memory, each painting is a living document of the human experience: messy, luminous, and achingly real.

Her path began at Istituto Marangoni studying fashion, but art had other plans. Drawn to the intersection of intuition and innovation and inspired by the relentless curiosity of Leonardo da Vinci, Janae developed a practice where raw emotion meets structural intention. No two pieces are alike. Every brushstroke is a decision. Every canvas, a conversation.

Her work has been described as the feeling of recognizing something you've never seen before. If a single painting can stop time, make you catch your breath, or bring a forgotten memory rushing back, that's not coincidence. That's the work doing exactly what it was made to do.

Collecting a piece by Janae isn't acquiring decoration. It's choosing to live inside a story.

 FAQs

  • Janae Salinas is a self-taught abstract painter based in Santa Clara, California. She creates vibrant, emotionally driven works that sit at the edge of personal memory and universal experience. Her pieces are collected by individuals who want more than something beautiful on their wall. They want something alive.

  • Impermanence. Resilience. The quiet weight of who we've been and who we're becoming. Janae's work explores the full spectrum of human experience, not with answers, but with the kind of honest and open-ended questions that stay with you long after you've left the room. Expect bold color, kinetic energy, and an emotional depth that rewards slow looking.

  • Yes, and commissioning Janae is a deeply collaborative experience. She works one-on-one with private collectors and corporate clients to create pieces that don't just fill a space, they define it. Whether you have a clear vision or just a feeling you can't quite name, she'll translate it into something that exceeds what you imagined.

    Reach out at xosufren@gmail.com to start the conversation.

  • Janae's work commands a room. Whether you're planning a gallery show, a corporate installation, or a site-specific exhibition, she brings both the artistic vision and the professional ease that makes the process seamless.

    Reach out at xosufren@gmail.com. She'd love to hear what you're building.

  • Janae is genuinely open to unexpected collaborations with artists, brands, architects, musicians, and curators. If you see a creative intersection that excites you, she probably does too.

    Drop a line at xosufren@gmail.com and let's explore what's possible.