Press
Coming Soon: Profile in Country Roads Magazine
D. Eric Bookhardt. (November 16, 2004) "Strange Science", Gambit Weekly; Review of the Maiden Louisiana Show at The Big Top
"Although all of the artists are women, it may owe as much to sci-fi/fantasy as to feminism. For instance, Gossip by Janet Luru features some gnarly twisted tree trunks with human heads (with donkey ears) sprouting from their branches. Each head is a life cast of the artist's visage and they appear in full gossip mode, chattering to each other like otherworldly rumor-mongers. Gossip is often associated with girls, but Luru makes it, literally, universal."
Picture on the cover of the Metro Section of The Advocate
"Janet LuRu puts ears and faces on her kinetic sculpture, "Gossip" for the "Maiden Louisiana" Show at the Big Top gallery in New Orleans set for Oct. 19. The show coincides with the National Sculpture Conference. The sculpture is four trees that have 13 faces with chattering teeth. Yarn and latex make up the bark. LuRu said the project took about 400 hours."