3/6/2001 - THE HARBOR SQUARE GALLERY, ROCKLAND, MAINE * THE SCOTT BUNDY GALLERY, KENNEBUNKPORT,MAINE * THOS.HENRY GALLERY,NANTUCKET,MA; LONDON,ENG * LEFT BANK GALLERY,WELLFLEET,MA MUNSON GALLERY, SANTA FE,NM SOFA CHICAGO ELAINE HORWITCH, SEDONA,AZ EL PRADO ,SEDONA AZ EARTHENWORKS,LA CONNER,WA * current
ACC Baltimore Show - February 22-26th Wholesale/Retail
Baltimore Convention Center
- 15ft COLLAGE COMMISSION THOS JEFFERSON SCHOOL OF LAW, SAN DIEGO, CA . TO BE COMPLETED FALL 2011
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS COMPLETION OF MY TWENTY NINTH COMMISSION 2011
Smilow Cancer Center Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT. 4 Public commissions (1 collage, 3 paintings) 2009
Park Street Clinical Lab, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven,CT 48" X 37.5" X 2" Painting
CURRENT COMMISSIONS 2010;
Russo, Toner & Keane Law Firm, NYC 40" X 80" x 2" Painting
2011 Triptych collage for The Thomas Jefferson School of Law San Diego, California
3 Private commissions, residential
Review Judy Birke Art critic and consultant New Haven Register
It is not only because of their beauty that Joanne Williams' paintings are exhilarating. The lyrical presence of her graceful forms,suspended in time and space, the layered veils of surface and the uniqueness of materials all serve to create a mythical realm of delicately balanced serenity.
Williams works are about time,place, memory, magic, the past and the future. In the paintings, the abstract geometric shapes that stabilize the imagery, give way to the pliable, sinuous forms finding a lovely balance between control and intuition.
These paintings, their narratives suspended in distant cultural memories and associative symbols,ponder ideas beyond the visual,evoking a gentle,ephemeral sense of spiritual being.
The confident and adventurous manner in which she manipulates her materials, has a double appeal, reflecting not only the essence of a narrative of accumulated layers of history, but also the expressive and concrete act of art making.