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The American Craft Council Show - February 23, 24, 2010 Wholesale Craft Show Baltimore Convention Center One West Pratt Street, Baltimore www.craftcouncil.org/baltimore
The American Craft Council Show - February 25, 26, 27, 28, 2010 Retail Craft Show Baltimore Convention Center One West Pratt Street, Baltimore www.craftcouncil.org/baltimore
Crafts America Show - March 5, 6, 7, 2010 West Palm Beach Fine Craft Show West Palm Beach, FL
Architectural Digest Show - March 18, 19, 20, 21, 2010 The Architectural Digest Home Design Show Pier 94 NYC, NY
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS COMPLETION OF MY TWENTY FIFTH COMMISSION 2008
Smilow Cancer Center Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT. 4 Public commissions (1 collage, 3 paintings) 2009
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.
