Jane Rubin is an Artist, Performer and Writer residing in New York City.

As a toddler, little girl and teen Jane danced, played the piano and drew and painted.

Jane first showed her work in New York City in 1983, at The James Chapel of Union Theological Seminary, where she exhibited early figurative paintings and drawings.

During the 1980's and early 90's Jane created figurative paintings and drawings -- including numerous self-portraits -- installations, writing and performances.

Love, sex, trust, intimacy -- and underlying turbulences related to childhood trauma and bigotry were themes.

Basketball suddenly became a theme in Jane's work in 1992. Channel surfing one night she happened upon a Bulls game on TV.

Since 1998 Jane has been creating work live, performatively, at pro, college and streetball hoops games, drawing and painting the action as it is happening, without the use of photographic mediation. The initial inspiration for this work was seeing Michael Jordan, and the Triangle Offense, in that 1992 Bulls-TrailBlazers playoff game.

Jane's first live hoops drawings were created in a New York City playground at Chrystie and Houston Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a park that the city had transformed during the 1990's from a danger zone into a well-landscaped basketball haven for the neighborhood.

While Jane has created photographs, video and film, as well as photo-based painting, the body of work she began in 1998 is created via a transparent, in-the-moment process.

In 1996 Jane became inspired by Yankees baseball and the energy and excitement in New York City as the 90's dynasty team exploded on the scene, (although she did not begin to watch games on a regular basis until the early 2000's.)

In 1997 Jane published Jane's LOVE.

During 2002, Jane made an extensive amount of live basketball drawings at sites around New York City.

Jane began to performatively paint and draw NY Yankees players live in 2006, creating two watercolors of Derek Jeter at short.

Then, in 2007, Jane began to focus on developing a large body of images of the Yankees, attending numerous games and drawing and painting live, a series she has continued to expand on since that time.

Iconic self-portraiture has been a major theme in Jane's art since childhood.

While still an undergraduate at Barnard College, Jane was invited to take part in the Graduate Drawing Seminar in the Columbia University MFA Program.

Jane received her M.F.A. in 1988 from The School of Art of California Institute of the Arts. At CalArts Jane was awarded the Graduate Teaching Assistant positions for Painting, Drawing and Color Theory Seminars. Her first year painting show consisted of both larger-than-life and intimately scaled cinematic paintings. With no formal background in graphic design, Jane was accepted into the Graduate Design Program to complete a second MFA; however, she declined, wanting instead to work on her own and also return to New York City. Jane was referred to and wrote art reviews for Art issues and Artcoast Magazines during 1988-89.

In 1989 Jane was selected -- without being interviewed -- to participate in The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, which she completed in New York City during 1989-90.

Jane has exhibited paintings, drawings, and multi-media installations in New York City and Los Angeles.

In 2001 Jane founded Totalview Marketing, a Multi-Dimensional Branding, Advertising and Marketing Agency that specializes in creating innovative branding for financial/trading industry companies. In 2005 Jane also passed the Series 3 and 30 Licensing Exams.

As a child and teen she was encouraged to pursue a career in dance, music and art and exhibited a proclivity for both math and writing.

Jane first began drawing live events in 1981.

In 2009 Jane completed the draft of her first novel,
77 Rue d'Orange.

Jane was born and raised in York, PA.

The work exhibited on janefirst.com is a sampling. More can be viewed by contacting the artist.

Copyright Jane Rubin 2012