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Current: Cool and Collected '22
At Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut: A group show that highlights the work of gallery artists. Here, my "Silk Road 441," 2019, encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches. Click pic for more info
"Stripes: The Whole Idea"
Online group exhibition sponsored by American Abstract Artists, curated by Edith Newhall. Click pick to see the show
Recent: "Joanne Mattera: Silk Road" at Arden Gallery, Boston
Newest work from my ongoing "Silk Road" series. Here, a quartet of paintings, each 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches. Click pic to see my work at Arden
Recent: "Stone Soup" at Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Work on paper from my new series, "Riz," will be included in "Stone Soup," a group show that will have a presence both in the gallery and online. Links to come. Here, "Riz 11," 2020, oil on 300-lb.Fabriano hotpress, 14,25 x 14.25 inches
Recent: Hue & Me" at Addington Gallery, Chicago
My first solo show with the gallery took place September and October, 2020, after being postponed because of Covid. Click pic to view a walk-through of the show
Exhibition Catalog
I'm pleased to announce that Well-Fed Artist Press has published the catalog for my solo show at Addington Gallery in Chicago. Designed by the painter Karen Freedman, with an essay by Dan Addington, the catalog features an interview between Hue and Me. Click pic to view
Ongoing: At The Boston Drawing Project
"Silk Trail," my series of (very reasonably priced) digital prints, each unique, is on view at the Boston Drawing Project at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston. Here, "Silk Trail 384," 2019, on Epson archival paper. Click pic for more info
Recent: "TerraChroma" at Addington Gallery
This group show at Addington Gallery in Chicago combined landscape with the rich chromatic space of color-based abstraction. Click pic for more info
Recent: "Digital" at Transmitter in Brooklyn
“Digital: AAA Prints 2012-2019,” is at Transmitter Gallery in Bushwick. American Abstract Artists, the venerable group to which I belong, is showing the digital print work of its members. The exhibition will travel to the Gallery at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., later this year, and the Herron School of Art + Architecture in Indianapolis in 2021. Here, my “Weave,” 2018. Click pic for more info and a link to the online catalog
Recent: "Turner's Patent Yellow" at ODETTA
Inspired by the yellow she encountered in a London museum—which turned out to be a particular shade patented by J.M.W. himself—the indefatigable Ellen Hackl Fagan has mounted an ambitious group exhibition in her Harlem home in which all the work of the invited artists features some version of this primary hue. Above: Two of my "Silk Road" paintings are flanked by Jane Sangerman's painting, left, and Audrey Stone's. right. Click pic for more images
Recent: Solo at ODETTA, New York City
"From Dawn to Dusk," my 37th career solo, took place at ODETTA Gallery in New York City. Click pic installation view of the show. Here, Silk Road 457, 2019, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches
Click pic to view this catalog of the show
Memoir Published: Vita: Growing Up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art
I recount my childhood in an Italian American family as the conformity of the Fifties gives way to the free expression of the Sixties. The excesses of art school in Boston and life on a commune in upstate New York evolve into a happy lesbian life and a focused and rewarding art career. Click pic to read more
Interview Online
Click logo to read Deanna Sirlin's interview with me
Recent: "Chromaticity" at Addington Gallery, Chicago
I'm one of three artists in "Chomaticity" at Addington Gallery, with Alicia LaChance and Lisa Pressman. If you're in Chicago, head over to the River North Galleries, particularly Addington on N. Wells. Tell Dan Addington I sent you. Here, a grid of my "Silk Road" paintings. Click pic for more gallery info. Photo: Robin Samiljan
Recent: A Short History of Contemporary Abstraction
Curated by the artist James Austin Murray, this exhibition is at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey, theough April 30. Click pic for info and a list of artists. Photo: Laura Fayer
Recent: Recent History of American Abstraction
"Continuity to Change: Recent History of American Abstraction" took place at the Tower Fine Arts Gallery, College at Brockport, State University of New York. Exhibiting artists include Liz Ainslie, Siri Berg, Emily Berger, Susan Bonfils, Gabriele Evertz, Laurie Fendrich, Sam Gilliam, Mara Held, Pinkney Herbert, Al Loving, Katinka Mann, Creighton Michael, Lisa Nanni, Irene Rousseau, Ce Roser, Clover Vail, Patricia Zarate, and Nola Zirin. The exhibition was curated by Tim Massey
Recent: Solo at Arden Gallery, Boston
This was my ninth solo show with the venerable Boston gallery, now under the stewardship of Zola Solamente and Rick Boomer. Click pick to view a walk-through of the show
Click pic to view this catalog of the show
Recent: "Crazy Beautiful" At Kenise Barnes
View into the gallery with six "Silk Road" paintings. Click pic for a walk-through of the show
Recent: Organic to Geometric at PAAM
This exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetowm, Mass., curated by Carol Pelletier, presents exemplary work by professional artists working in the medium of encaustic. Click pic to view the catalog online in its entirety
Recent: "Domestic Disturbances" in Brooklyn
Curated by the painter Joanne Freeman. Click pic for more info
Recently Acquired by Montefiore Medical Center
A selection of digital prints from my "Silk Trail" series was acquired by Montefiore Medical Center's Fine Art Program via Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Click pic for more info
Recent: "I Always Return to Hue"
Solo at Arden Gallery, Boston. Click pic for more info
Second Edition
A book to mark 10 years of the ongoing "Silk Road" series, with installation views and review excerpts. Click pic to view
"The Silk Road Paintings"
This wall of paintings was shown in 2015 at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York. Click pic for info
"Formal Aspects"
At the Cape Cod Museum of Art, this 2015 exhibition of six painters, curated by Sarah Hinckley, considered the role of location to abstraction. Click pic for the exhibition website
Online at Geoform.net
This and other work is online at Geoform.net, a curatorial resource of work in the geometric idiom. Above Ciel Rouge, 2008, encaustic on four panels, 48 x 67 inches. Click pic to access the Geoform site
Installation view: Atlanta lobby
This painting, Uttar 240, ( encaustic on four panels, 48 x 67 inches) was acquired from the Marcia Wood Gallery by Mark Williams Design, Atlanta
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Excellent Joanne
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