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EDUCATION
M.A., Visual Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Diamond Life Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2010 Travel With Me Arden Gallery, Boston
2009 The Unexpected Solo Arden Gallery, Boston
2008 Contemplating the Horizontal Arden Gallery,
Boston
2008 Hue Again Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat
College of Art, Beverly, Mass.
2008 (Curators: Leonie Bradbury and Shana Dumont)
2007 Silk Road OK Harris Works of Art, New York
City
2007 It’s Always About Hue, Isn’t It? Cervini
Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2006 Heat of the Moment Arden Gallery, Boston
2006 Pure Color Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2006 10 Years of Encaustic Painting Winfisky Gallery,
Salem State College, Salem, Mass.
2004 New Paintings in Encaustic Arden Gallery,
Boston
2004 New Paintings Simon Gallery, Morristown,
New Jersey
2004 New Paintings Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2003 New Paintings Arden Gallery, Boston
2003 Mudra: New Paintings Cervini Haas Gallery,
Scottsdale
2002 Uttar: New Paintings Simon Gallery, Morristown
2001 New Encaustic Paintings Cervini Haas Gallery,
Scottsdale
2000 New Encaustic Paintings Arden Gallery, Boston
2000 Verso: Thought, Breath, Memory Espace Gallery,
Manila, Philippines
1999 New Paintings Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
1996 Linear Perspectives OK Harris Works of Art,
New York City
1995 New Paintings in Encaustic Stephen Haller
Gallery, New York City
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Plane Speaking McKenzie
Fine Art, New York City
2011 Baby
It’s Cold Outside: A Cozy
Palette for a Chilly Season Kenise Barnes Fine
Art, Larchmont
2010 Viewing Room Heidi
Cho Gallery, New York City
2010 Pull: Print Portfolio Exhibition Marcia
Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2010 Castleton Twelve Project Space, Castleton,
New York (Curators: Lisa Mackie and Peter Mackie)
2010 Art Hamptons Invited by DM Contemporary,
New York
2010 July Salon June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland,
Maine
2010 Geometric Themes and Variations Gallery 128,
New York (Curator: Gloria Klein)
2010 Inspire Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Connecticut
2010 Oasis Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson
2010 Director's Choice Kenise Barnes Fine Art,
Larchmont, New York
2010 Love, Lust and Desire II McGowan Fine Art,
Concord, New Hampshire
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2009 Manhattan Preview DM Contemporary/Manhattan
2009 Per Square Foot Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson
2009 Slippery When Wet Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Brooklyn
2009 Summer Guest House Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2009 Obsessions Adler & Co. Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Stayin' Alive Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Brooklyn
2009 GeoMetrics II Gallery 128, New York City
(Curator: Gloria Klein)
2009 Castle Hill at the Provincetown (Mass.) Art
Association and Museum, Hans Hoffman Gallery
2009 Gallery Artists: Works On Paper June Fitzpatrick
Gallery, Portland, Maine
2009 Love, Lust and Desire McGowan Fine Art, Concord,
New Hampshire
2009 Bridge Art Fair, New York Invited by DM Contemporary,
Mill Neck, New York
2009 Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Adler & Co.
Gallery, San Francisco
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2008 Material Color Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton,
New Jersey (Curator: Mary Birmingham)
2008 No Chromophobia OK Harris Works of Art, New
York City (Curator: Richard Witter)
2008 Small Wonder Garson Baker Fine Art, New York
City
2008 Relative Geometries Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Tucson
2008 Gifts from the Studio Kenise Barnes Fine
Art, Larchmont
2008 This Just in Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2008 Adler Group Show Adler & Co. Gallery,
San Francisco
2008 Calculated Color Higgins Art Gallery, Barnstable,
Mass. (Curator: Jane Lincoln)
2008 A Breath of Fresh Air Kenise
Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
2008 Fourth Anniversary Exhibition DM Contemporary,
Mill Neck, New York
2008 Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Adler & Co.
Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Art Now FairNew York City, Invited by DM
Contemporary, Mill Neck, New York
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2007 Punchbowl Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn,
New York
2007 The Blogger Show Agni Gallery, New York City
(Organizer: John Morris)
2007 Gigantic Small Works Show Rosenfeld Gallery,
Philadelphia
2007 The Fusion Project June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Portland, Maine
2007 Adler Group Show Adler & Co. Gallery,
San Francisco
2007 Encaustic Invitational Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Tucson
2007 Art Now Fair Miami Beach, invited by DM Contemporary,
Mill Neck, New York
2007 Red Dot Fair Miami Beach, invited by Arden
Gallery, Boston
2007 Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Adler and
Co. Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Red Dot Fair New York, invited by Kenise
Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
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2006 Neo Plastic Redux Elizabeth Harris Gallery,
New York City (Organizer: Miles Manning)
2006 Gigantic Small Works Show Rosenfeld Gallery,
Philadelphia
2006 Nancy Manter, Joanne Mattera, Babe Shapiro DM
Contemporary, Mill Neck, New York
2006 A Thing of Beauty and A Joy Forever Kenise
Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
2006 Minimal Minimal Works Gallery, Philadelphia
2006 Luminous Depths Ben Shahn Galleries, Wm.
Paterson University, Wayne, N.J.
2006(Curator: Nancy Einreinhofer)
2006 Adler Group Show Adler & Co. Gallery,
San Francisco
2006 Order(ed) Siano Gallery, Philadelphia (Curator:
Julie Karabenick with essay by Roberta Fallon)
2006 Flow Art Fair Miami Beach, invited by Kenise
Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
2006 Art (212) Fair New York, invited by Marcia
Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2006 Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Cervini Haas
Gallery, Scottsdale
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2005 What Did Puck Say? Heidi Cho Gallery, New
York City
2005 Engaging the Structural Broadway Gallery,
New York City (Curator: Julie Karabenick)
2005 Cooled and Collected: Modern Masters of Contemporary
Encaustic, Boon Gallery, Salem, Mass.
2005 Wish You Were Here IV A.I.R. Gallery, New
York City
2005 Color Theory Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn,
New York (Curator: Kenise Barnes)
2005 Wax Art Brush Gallery, Lowell, Mass. (Curator:
E. Linda Poras)
2005 Works On Paper Invitational Cervini Haas
Gallery, Scottsdale
2005 Wax Works McGowan Fine Arts, Concord, New
Hampshire
2005 AAF Contemporary Fair New York, invited by
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
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2004 Color Theory Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont,
New York
2004 Unbound: Selected Artists from ‘The Art of Encaustic
Painting’ R&F
2004 Gallery, Kingston, New York (Curator: Laura Moriarty)
2004 Four New York Artists Patrick Olson Gallery,
Plymouth, Michigan
2004 AAF Contemporary Fair New York, invited by
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
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2003 Encaustic Now II Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2003 Wish You Were Here Too A.I.R. Gallery, New
York City
2003 The Way of Wax Winfisky Gallery at Salem
State College, Salem, Mass.
2003 Serenity Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2003 AAF Contemporary Fair New York, Thatcher
Projects, New York City
2003 Art Santa Fe Invited by Cervini Haas Gallery,
Scottsdale
2003 Tickled Pink Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2003 Art Miami Invited by Arden Gallery, Boston
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2002 Work on Paper Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2002 Lush Abstraction Melanee Cooper Gallery,
Chicago
2002 Hot Wax Cummings Art Center at Connecticut
College, New London
2002 Artcetera Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
2002 Works on Paper Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2002 The Postcard Show A.I.R. Gallery, New York
City
2002 Water Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2002 Enkaustikos: Wax As a Contemporary Medium Pentimenti
Gallery, Philadelphia
2002 Centering Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa
Rosa, California
2002 Generations III A.I.R. Gallery, New York
City
2002 AAF Contemporary Fair New York, Thatcher
Projects, New York City
2002 Art San Francisco Invited by Newzones Gallery,
Calgary, Canada
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2001 Encaustic Now Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2001 Encaustic Works Arden Gallery, Boston
2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting Cervini Haas
Gallery, Scottsdale
2001 Encaustic: Joanne Mattera and Friends Melanee
Cooper Gallery, Chicago
2001 Big Painting Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2001 Deck the Walls Newzones Gallery, Calgary
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2000 Constant Aesthetic Stephen Haller Gallery,
New York City
2000 Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium A.I.R
Gallery, New York City
2000 Aesthetic Boundaries Stephen Haller Gallery,
New York City
2000 The Other Side and This Side: The Art of Italian and
Italian-American
2000 Women Casa Italiana, New York City
2000 Pieces IV Gallery 128, New York City (Curator:
Sylvia Netzer)
2000 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America Knoxville
(Tenn.) Museum of Art
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1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America Montclair
(N.J.) Art Museum (Curator: Gail Stavitsky)
1999 Signs, Codes and Surfaces Stephen Haller
Gallery, New York City
1999 Pieces III Gallery 128, New York City (Curator:
Sylvia Netzer)
1999 Los Angeles National Patricia Correia Gallery,
Santa Monica
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1998 Contemporary Wax Stephen Haller Gallery,
New York City
1998 Small Works Washington Square East Gallery,
New York City
1998 Generations A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
1998 Ron Ehrlich, Gregory Johnston, Joanne Mattera, Hiro
Yokose Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
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1997 Cultural Markers Stephen Haller Gallery,
New York City
1997 1+1=3: Independent Artists, Collaborative Art Alicia
Torres Fine Art, New York City
1997 Material Girls: Gender, Process and Abstract Art Since
1970 Gallery 128,
1997 New York City (Curator: Harmony Hammond)
1997 Inaugural Show Christine Adapon Gallery,
Manila
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1996 Cultural Markers Stephen Haller Gallery,
New York City
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1995 Small Works Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
City
1995 Virtuosity Art Fair The Armory, New York,
invited by Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
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1994 Waxing Minimal: Joanne Mattera, Inger Sand Lee, Tom
Sime Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City
1994 Signs, Codes & Alphabets Tribeca 148,
New York City
1994 Small Works Washington Square East Gallery,
New York City
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1993 93 Wishes for '94 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery,
New York City
1993 Small Works East West Cultural Center, New
York City
1993 Works on Paper Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield,
Mass. (Curator: Andre Emmerich)
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1982 Works on Paper Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta
1982 Collage: Eleven Contemporary Artists Wheaton
College, Norton, Mass. (Curator: Pallas Lombardi)
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1981 Third Textile Biennial Savaria Museum, Szombatheley,
Hungary
1981 Selected Works Bartok Gallery, Budapest
1981 Collage: Eleven Contemporary Artists Wheaton
College, Norton, Mass. (Curator: Pallas Lombardi)
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1980 Artist/Artisan Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Beach
1980 Paper Hera Gallery, Providence
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1979 Paper: Metamorphoses Florence Duhl Gallery,
New York City
1979 Ninth International Biennale de la Tapisserie Musee
des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1979 New Work Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston
.
1978 New Works Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York
City
1978 Small Works: An Invitational Touchstone Gallery,
New York City
AWARDS
2007 Ella Jackson Chair, Castle Hill Center for
the Arts, Truro, Mass.
2005 Artist’s Resource Trust grant, a fund of the Berkshire
Taconic Foundation, Massachusetts
1997 Juror’s Award, Painting and Sculpture National, San
Jacinto College, Houston; Howard Fox, juror
1995 Juror’s Award, Small Works, Washington Square East Gallery,
New York City; Jacquie Littlejohn, juror
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
Connecticut College, Print Collection
University Libraries Collection, University of New York at Albany
Wheaton College Gallery, Norton, Massachusetts
Alston & Bird, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Bank of America
Beacon Properties, Boston
Dana-Farber Institute, Boston
Delta Airlines, Boston
Evans Encaustics, Sonoma, California
Mark Williams Design, Atlanta
McKee Nelson, New York City
Pacific Peninsula Group, Menlo Park, California
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Florham Park, New Jersey
R&F Paints, Kingston, New York
Red Wheel/Weiser Books, Boston
U.S. Embassies, Slovenia and Poland
Consulate of Brunei
Eduardo Calma Architecture, Makati City, Philippines
Private collections: United States, Canada, Scandinavia, the Philippines
PUBLICATIONS
The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in
the Ancient Medium
of Pigmented Wax (Watson-Guptill, New York: 2001)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 Conversations,
co-curator with Laura Moriarty, Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York
2010 Wax Libris II curator, Paul Scott Library,
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass.
2009 Wax Libris curator, Paul Scott Library,
Montserrat College of Art
2009 Blogpix,one of several curators, Platform
Project Space, New York City
2007 Luxe, Calme et Volupte’ curator, Marcia
Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2007 Thinking in Wax juror, Castle Hill Center
for the Arts, Truro, Mass.
2003 The Whole Ball of Wax juror, Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago
1993 Objects of Their Affection curator, InterArt
Center, New York City
1982 Artists on the Grid curator, Svetlana Rockwell
Gallery, Cambridge
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
2010 Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Daniella Woolf
2009 The Artist's Guide: Making A Living Doing What You Love, Da
Capo; Jackie Battenfield
2005 Abstract Painting, Watson Guptill; Vicky Perry
2003 In Our Own Voices: Perspectives on Italian and Italian-American
Women, Bordighera; Eliz. G. Messina, ed.
2001 Spirit Maps, Red Wheel/Weiser; Joanna Arettam
2000 Lesbian Art in America, Rizzoli Harmony Hammond
1998 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America; Montclair
Art Museum/Rutgers Univ. Press; Gail Stavitsky, ed..
PERIODICALS
2010 Art Critical, “Abstraction in a Cold
Climate,” Franklin Einspruch; ecember (online)
2010 Maine Sunday telegram, "Refinement Multiplied," Philip Isaacson;
July 25
2010 Portland Phoenix, "Bright Lines at June Fitzpatrick," Nicholas
Schroeder; July 20
2010 Venetian Red, “Artists in Conversation: Joanne Mattera’s
Journey of Visual Pleasure,” Liz Hager (online)
2009 View List at Minus Space, "Bulletin Board: Inspiration
Information,"conceived by Karen Schifano (online)
2009 Making the Art Seen, "Featured Painter: Joanne Mattera," interview
by Sand T., July 2009 (online)
2009 Artist's Career Guide, "Reality Check: Interview with
Joanne Mattera, Jackie Battenfield (online)
2009 Artscope, "Third Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting," Brian
Goslow; May-June issue
2009 NYC Art, "GeoMetrics," Chris Rywalt; March 24
(online)
2009 Zocalo (Tucson), "Per Square Foot at Conrad Wilde," Dolly Spaulding,
December 10
2008 The Boston Globe, "Color Their World," Cate McQuaid; December
17
2008 Berkshire Fine Arts, “Boston’s
Newbury Street Galleries,”Shawn Hill; December 27 (online)
2008 More magazine, "Art Beat," Alesha Hardwick-Whyte; October
2008 The Boston Phoenix, "Waxing Poetic," Randi Hopkins;
June 3
2008 Steven Alexander Journal, "Joanne Mattera," March
15 (online)
2007 Provincetown Banner, "When Art Runs Hot and Cold," Melora
B. North; August 23
2007 Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Spirit of Baudelaire, Matisse Flows," Debra
Wolf; July 8
2007 Abstract Art On Line,"New York Views:
Joanne Mattera at OK Harris," Joseph Walentini; May
15
2007 The New York Sun, "Joanne Mattera: Silk Road at OK Harris," Maureen
Mullarkey; May 3
2007 Phoenix Home and Garden, "Color Blocks," March
2007 Maine Sunday Telegram, "Fusion: A Portland Encaustic
Event," Philip Isaacson, Feb. 18
2007 Maine Sunday Telegram, "Stacks of Wax," Bob Keyes;
February 11
2006 Art New England, "Art Criticism on the Internet," Raymond
A. Liddell; December
2006 Boston Globe, "A Clever Pairing," Cate McQuaid;
September 14
2006 Fallon & Rosof's Art Blog, "Ordered," Libby
Rosof; May 17 (online)
2006 Look, See, "Joanne Mattera's Encaustic
Paintings," Chris Ashley; April 16 (online)
2005 Lowell Sun, "Whole Ball of Wax," Barbara Rizza Mellin;
November 12
2005 Art News, "How to Talk to An Artist," Gail Gregg;
June
2005 NY Arts, "Geometry Reloaded," Lilly Wei; April/May
2005 Syracuse Post-Standard, "Color This Exhibit…," Katherine
Rushworth; May 15
2005 NYArts, "On and Off the Grid: In Conversation with Joanne
Mattera," Julie Karabenick; Feb/March
2005 New York Times, "‘Unbound: Selected Artists,"’ D.
Dominick Lombardi; Jan. 2
2004 Boston Globe, "An Eyeful of Color," Cate McQuaid;
December 10
2004 Traditional Home, "A Fresh Shade of Bungalow," Eliot
Nusbaum; Sept.
2004 Arts Media, "Artists Wax Enthusiastic," Rachel Strutt;
March
2003 Boston Sunday Globe, "Critics’ Picks," Christine
Temin; April 28
2003 Boston Globe, "Critics’ Picks," Cate McQuaid;
April 18
2003 Arts Media, "Joanne Mattera: Paintings in Encaustic," Shawn
Hill; April-May
2003 IONS Review, Barbara McNeill, ed., portfolio; Issue 63, March-June
2003 The Week, "Joanne Mattera at Arden Gallery, Boston," April
19
2003 Scottsdale Republic, "Eclectic Mix at Cervini Haas," Roberta
Burnett, April 16
2003 IONS Review, Barbara McNeill, ed., portfolio; Issue 62, Dec.
02–Feb. 03
2002 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Expanding the Possibilities
of Paper," Jerry Cullum; November 15
2002 New York Times, "Hot Wax," William Zimmer; November
10
2002 Philadelphia Inquirer, "Novel Process, Classical Elegance," Edward
J. Sozanski; May 19
2002 Philadelphia Weekly, "Play On," Roberta Fallon;
May 10
2002 Philadelphia Daily Local News, "Ancient Medium Explored
Again," R.B. Strauss; May 4
2002 Boston Sunday Globe, "The Process," Catherine Foster;
March 3
2002 Art New England, "The Art of Encaustic Painting," book
review, Susan Schwalb; Feb/March
2001 Arizona Republic, "Beauty of Encaustic Has its Price," John
Carlos Villani, November 8
2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Waxing Eloquent," Catherine
Fox; October 12
2000 Manila Today, "Art Guide," review; June 6
2000 The Philippine Star, "Gallery News," review; June
5
2000 Art in America, "Joanne Mattera at Marcia Wood," Jerry
Cullum; March
2000 Design and Architecture (Manila), "An Italian Spell in
Tagaytay," Alane Ty; February
1999 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Mattera Infuses Modernist
Grid with New Depth," Jerry Cullum; July
1997 New York Arts, "Picks," Christopher Chambers; October
1997 Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Four Artists," Jerry
Cullum; October 3
1997 William and Mary Review, Erica Weitzman ed., portfolio; Vol.
35
1994 Artforum, "Objects of Their Affection at Interart Center," Keith
Seward; February
1981 Art Voices, "Joanne Mattera," Jessica Scarborough;
July/August
1981 Driadi, "Du Blanc a la Couleur," Michel Thomas;
April
1981 Maenad, "Joanne Mattera," portfolio; Spring 1981
1980 Sojourner, "Risks Pay Off," Jessica Scarborough;
August
1980 American Craft, "Joanne Mattera," portfolio; " Spring
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ON-LINE
Venetian Red, Artists in Conversation: Joanne Mattera's Journey
of Visual Pleasure, by Liz Hager; February 2010
View List at Minus Space, Bulletin Board: Inspiration Information,
curated by Karen Schifano
Making the Art Seen, Featured Painter: Joanne Mattera, interview
by Sand T, July 2009
The Artist's Career Guide, Reality Check interview with Joanne
Mattera by Jackie Battenfield, June 2009
NYC Art, GeoMetrics II, Chris Rywalt; March 25, 2009
Berkshire Fine Arts, Boston's Newbury Street Galleries, Shawn Hill;
December 27, 2008
Kate Beck :: Art Notes, Essentials of Light: Pure Color, Kate Beck,
August 19, 2008
Steven Alexander Journal, Joanne Mattera, Steven Alexander, March
15, 2008
Abstract Art on Line, New York Views: Joanne Mattera at OK Harris,
Joseph Walentini, May 15, 2007
Geoform, An Interview with Joanne Mattera, Julie Karabenick, editor
Fallon and Rosof’s Artblog, "Order(ed)," review
by Libby Rosof, May 17, 2006
Look, See, Joanne Mattera's Encaustic Paintings, essay by Chris
Ashley , April 16, 2006
TALKS, PANELS
2010 Guest Speaker,
Textile Study Group of New York, New York City, Affinities:
Fiber and Wax
2010 Moderator,
Montserrat Encaustic Conference, Beverly, Mass., Making
a Career in Encaustic
2009 Moderator, Art
Bloggers @ Art Miami, panel discussion, Carving
Our Niche in the Blogosphere
2009 Moderator, Blogpix,panel
in conjunction with exhibition at Platform Gallery, New York City
2008 Moderator, Art
Bloggers @ Red Dot, panel discussion during March art
fairs in New York City
2008 Presenter,
College Art Association, Dallas Finding a Place
for Yourself in the Art World
2007 Co-organizer, Art Blogger Miami, an ad hoc gathering
of art bloggers during Miami/Basel
2007 Guest Speaker, Montana
State University, 35 Years of More or Less The Same Thing
2007 Keynote Speaker, National Encaustic Painting
Conference, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass.
2007 Almost Mainstream After 2000 Years
2007 Panelist, June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Portland, Maine Contemporary Encaustic Painting
2005 Keynote Speaker, Art League of Northern
California, Novato Building and Sustaining
a Career in Art
2005 Guest Speaker, River Tree Center for
the Arts, Kennebunk, Maine Encaustic Painting
2004 Guest Lecturer, City College of New
York Encaustic Painting
2004 Guest Lecturer, R&F Gallery, Kingston,
New York Encaustic Forum
2003 Gallery Talk, Marcia Wood Gallery,
Atlanta Contemporary Encaustic Painting
2001 Panelist, Ellis Island, New York City Italian
American Women Artists
2000 Speaker,
Casa Italiana, New York University, New York City Material
Influences
2000 Panelist, Artists Talk on Art, New
York City Encaustic Painting
1999 Speaker,
Painter’s Forum, New York City Encaustic
Painting
VISITING ARTIST
2009 Distinguished Visiting Artist series, Marywood University,
Scranton, Pa.
2007 Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
2007 Montana State University, Bozeman
2004 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts
2002 Weissman Visiting Artist, Connecticut College, New London
1999 University of New York at Albany
CATALOGS AND ESSAYS
Material Color, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey,
2008; essay by Mary Birmingham, curator
Joanne Mattera: Ten Years of Encaustic Painting, for
the eponymous exhibition,
2006 Salem State College, Salem, Mass., March-April, 2006; essays
by Flavia Rando and the artist
Order(ed), for the eponymous exhibition curated by Julie Karabenick
at Gallery Siano,
2006 Philadelphia, May-June, 2006; essay, "Beauty, Order and
Individuality," by Roberta Fallon
"Uttar: Poetics of Materiality and Process," Flavia Rando; from the
exhibition, "New
2002 Paintings in Encaustic," Simon Gallery, Morristown, N.J.,
Sept.-October, 2002
ORGANIZE EVENTS
Co-organizer, Art Bloggers @, an adhoc group of art bloggers that convenes around
the art fairs in Miami, New York and elsewhere
Founder and Director, Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting, which takes place
at various academic venues
AFFILIATIONS
2005-10 Visiting Lecturer, 2D Fine Arts Department, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston
Current Founder and Director, Annual Conference
of Encaustic Painting, various locations
Current Co-organizer, Art Bloggers @, which convenes bloggers in
Miami, New York and elsewhere
TALKS, PANELS
2010 Speaker, Textile Study Group of New York, "Affinities:
Fiber and Wax"
2009 Moderator, Art Bloggers @ Art Miami, "Finding Our
Niche in the Blogosphere,"
2009 Moderator, panel in conjunction with Blogpix at Platform
Project Space, New York City
2009 Moderator, "Conservators in Conversation," panel
in conjunction with Annual Encaustic Conference, Beverly, Mass.
2008 Moderator, Art Bloggers @ Red Dot, New York City, during
art fair week in March
2008 Presenter, College Art Association, Dallas; "Finding
a Place for Yourself in the Art World"
2007 Keynote speaker, National Conference of Encaustic Painting,
Montserrat
2007 College of Art; "Almost Mainstream After 2000 Years"
2007 Panelist, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine; "Encaustic
Painting"
2005 Keynote Speaker, Art League of Northern California, Novato; "Building
and Sustaining a Career in Art"
2005 Speaker, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, Mass., "The Art
of Encaustic Painting"
2005 Speaker, River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, Maine; "2000
Years of Encaustic Painting"
2004 Guest Lecturer, City College of New York; "Encaustic
Painting"
2004 Guest Lecturer, R&F Gallery, Kingston, New York; Encaustic
Forum
2001 Panelist, Ellis Island, New York City; "Contemporary
Italian-American Women Artists"
2000 Speaker, Casa Italiana, New York University, New York City; "Material
Influences"
2000 Panelist, Artists Talk on Art, New York City; Encaustic
Painting
1999. Panelist, Painter’s Forum, New York City; Encaustic
Painting
WRITING
Current Joanne Mattera
Artblog: reports, observations and opinions
2011 “Affinities:
Fiber and Wax,” Surface design Journal, Winter issue
2010 "A Thread Runs Through It," forward for "Encaustic with a
Textile Sensibility," by Daniella Woolf
2007 Luxe,
Calme et Volupte: A Meditation on Visual Pleasure, essay for my
2007 curated exhibition at the Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2007 "Exquisite Dualities: The Recent Paintings of Alexandre Masino," essay
2007 "Material Witness: Silken Surfaces in Wax," essay of my work for
the
2007 Surface Design Journal, Fall issue
2006 "Encaustic: The ‘New’ Art Medium, Just 2000 Years Old," essay
for
2006 "Luminous Depths" catalog and exhibition
2006 "Dancing Shards: Between Order and Intuition," essay for painter
Gloria Klein
2006 "Kevin
Frank: The World in a Still Life," essay
2005 "Betsy Eby: Give and Take,"essay for the Seattle-based painter
2005 "Tracing the Arc Between Fiber and Wax," essay for sculptor Daniella
Woolf
2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient
2001 Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, New York
1981-83 Fiberarts, Editor in Chief
SELECTED CRITICAL OVERVIEW
"Appreciating this series of 129 paintings [Silk Road] solely
on the basis of its tour-de-force technical achievement would be
to miss the richer sphere that the work inhabits. Each painting
contains the inherent mystique invoked by the series; which is
to say, each piece promises a journey full of visual delights without
a specific roadmap . . . color on the scale of intimacy that Mattera
achieves is a powerful experience.”
--Liz Hager, Venetian Red, February 2010
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“What Joanne has done is lay down encaustic in layers, over
and over, and then gone back in with a carving tool and scraped
out lines. So each line reveals, through the layers, a varying
sampling of the colors she's laid down. The carving is, of course,
imprecise and in places stuttering and halting, so you can see
the effort and manual nature of the carving, which both brings
out and is brought out by the different colors. The effect is far
too subtle, in terms of resolution, to look correct in reproduction.
In fact these paintings are closer to sculptures; what you also
can't get until you see them in person is the very tactile nature
of the encaustic, the way its waxy sheen communicates with the
carving . . .with Joanne allowing the encaustic to lap over the
edges of her panels like the rind on good cheese. Elegant, simple,
precise in their imprecision -- very wabi sabi, as the Japanese
might say.”
--Chris Rywalt, NYC Art, March 25, 2009
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“Mattera . . . excels in taking encaustic, this oldest of
media, in the most lush minimal and formal directions. “Contemplating
the Horizontal" features stripes that manage to retain strict
geometry while never forgetting the gestural touch of the artist's
hand, especially in a subtractive sub-series where wax is scraped
away in horizontal bands to reveal underlying layers of color and
texture. While most of her panels are square, the show doesn't
lack for variety or vibrant color.”
--Shawn Hill, "Boston's Newbury Street Galleries," Berkshire
Fine Arts, December 27, 2008
"These pieces highlight the artist's delicate, almost surgical,
touch as she decides how deep to dig, to which level of color.
The joyful tones play together, waking up the weary-eyed. The horizontal
veins widen and narrow like rivulets. . . Sometimes it's a relief
to stop thinking and just gaze on something beautiful."
--Cate McQuaid, "Color Their World," The Boston Globe,
December 17, 2008
"Order and beauty form the organizing principle in an engaging
new exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery....Using Baudelaire and Matisse
as a springboard for contemporary expression, Mattera's premise
is both clever and effective. Fastidious process (order) is essential
to aesthetic outcome (beauty). Mattera's selections are smart and
pleasing in a show that combines control and creativity, visual
and tactile harmony, and individual refrains of luxe, calme et
volupte....Verdict: Intelligent and pleasurable."
--Debra Wolf, “Spirit of Baudelaire, Matisse Flows,” Atlanta
Journal Constitution, July 8, 2007
“Over the years Joanne Mattera has gradually reduced the
imagery in her work to finally arrive at this celebration of color
and surface….Mattera combines conceptual order, as embodied
in the structure of the grid, with beauty.”
--Joseph Walentini, "New York Views," Abstract Art on
Line, May 17, 2007
“The medium itself is very much the subject of "Silk
Road," Ms. Mattera's series of small encaustic panels on view
at OK Harris. Each panel is a simple expanse of what appears, at
quick glance, to be a single color. But owing to the opalescent
properties of pigmented beeswax applied in layers, these radiant
fields are irreducible to monochrome. Cunning visual subtleties
are the raison d'être of the series…The refinement
of Ms. Mattera's touch is all the more impressive when weighed
against the handling properties of encaustic, which work against
finesse. Encaustic begins to cool — and harden — the
instant a brush leaves the heated palette.”
--Maureen Mullarkey, "Joanne Mattera at OK Harris Works of
Art," The New York Sun, May 3, 2007
“Joanne Mattera is one of the acknowledged American authorities
working in encaustic. Her “Uttar 157” shows a mastery
that allows the application of the medium in thick, vigorous swipes
and encourages the result to stand up above the surface of the
work. Its boldness and ravishing color are unique in this event.”
--Philip Isaacson, review of “Fusion: A Portland Encaustic
Event,” Maine Sunday Telegram, Feb. 18, 2007
On the Joanne Mattera Art Blog: “Mattera provides literate
and important insights into the process of creating art.”
--Raymond A. Liddell, Art New England, December/January 2007
"The buildup of drops of wax signifies the passing of time,
a real passing as well as a metaphorical one. The poetry of time
passing is seen in the light captured in the layers of wax, seemingly
frozen in the medium like a seed in amber. Mattera employs in these
paintings what she calls 'disciplined intuition." A superb
colorist able to evoke emotional content, she contains the expressive
elements within the fomality of the grid."
-- Nancy Einreinhofer, curator of "Luminous Depths" at
Wm. Paterson University, Wayne, N.J., 2006
“Mattera…is an artist who delights in the process.
With a palette influenced by Indian miniature painting and with
a love of non-narrative, non-objective expression, Mattera delivers
a world of beauty and order in which individual [elements]—with
their spontaneous expressions of color, texture, drip, drop and
slather—are valued. ‘Uttar 135’ is a statement
of peace and a meditation on life’s wonders."
--Roberta Fallon, from the catalog essay, “Order(ed)”,
May 2006
“The light in Joanne Mattera’s paintings is about
the present and the just passing present. The light is present
in the material— it’s physical, and it interacts with
the environment and with current lighting conditions. But if her
art has what some might call a contemplative dimension it’s
because while the light is a thing that draws us in, it’s
the way this light is held in the wax, and the way we look below
the surface and into the depth of this light-filled wax, that slows
down our looking just a beat to an even more present presence,
one that is slow enough for us to see passing. If our looking stayed
on the surface our attention might glance off and finish. If our
looking goes beyond a surface, even if a only a fraction of an
inch into a physical depth and a depicted depth, our seeing is
more settled. The physical effect is slower looking. The psychological
effect is awareness of self in relation to the phenomenological
world.”
--Chris Ashley, from the blog, “Look, See,” April
5, 2006
“‘Uttar 250,’ part of a continuing series by
Joanne Mattera, is the most luxuriant painting here, inspired by
the colors of India, by traditional Indian miniature painting with
its saffrons, roses, vermilions, indigos, emeralds, cinnabars.
Also encaustic, its version of the grid consists of three stacks
of more or less even strokes of colors which in turn drip paint,
like syrup. This is a voluptuous painting, its grid about to melt
down, it seems, into pure, irresistible paint.”
--Lilly Wei,
from the essay, “Geometry Reloaded,” NY Arts, April
2005
“Mattera revels in the medium’s stained-glass-like
luminosity. She’s a colorist whose principal concern is how
tones interact and play off one another….Throughout, there’s
a sense that light is powering these works.”
--Cate McQuaid,
The Boston Globe, December 10, 2004
“Mattera’s play of color and luminosity is beguiling.”
--Rachel
Strutt, Arts Media (Boston), March 2004
“Minimalist artists used the grid to downplay the sensuality
of color and brushstrokes. The austerity helped focus the viewer’s
attention on pigment as pigment, line as line—a primary concern
of 60’s minimalism. Joanne Mattera has a different agenda.
She uses grids the way classical poets used rigorous rhyme schemes:
to impose elegant order onto an otherwise messy outpouring of emotion.”
--Staff
review, The Week (New York City), April 18, 2003
“Mattera’s square panels light up the intimate space
of the gallery…Mattera’s squares, dots and stripes
are minimal, but just enough to hold her emotive colors together.
Each painting is a distinct world.”
--Shawn Hill, Arts Media,
April 15-May 15, 2003
“’Uttar’ is intimate, embodying the artist’s
emotional response to the emotional world. Mattera is in love with
color, with material, with process….For Mattera, the process
of making art is a process of intuition working within a disciplined
framework.”
--Flavia Rando, Ph.D., from the essay, "Uttar:
Poetics of Materiality and Process," September, 2002
“Joanne Mattera is represented by nine paintings from her ‘Uttar’ series.
The sweep in these one-foot-square paintings of encaustic on panel
is in the vibrant color, paced by how the compositions grow from
one piece to the next.”
--R.B. Strauss, Philadelphia Daily
Local News , May 4, 2002
“One of the nation’s premier encaustic specialists.”
--John
Carlos Villani, The Arizona Republic, November 18, 2001
“Mattera’s expert manipulation of beeswax in encaustic
creates works of finesse and subtlety.”
--Staff review, The
Philippine Star, June 5, 2000
“Despite the complex formal relations present in these works,
the overall tone is intuitive rather than cerebral and defines
Mattera as a particularly adept representative of poetic intelligence.”
--Jerry
Cullum, Art in America, March, 2000
“Encaustic, the successive layering of melted colored wax,
is one of the world’s oldest ways of putting down pigment
on a surface. New York artist Joanne Mattera finds ways to wring
contemporary content from the method. Many of her works start with
the almost universal theme of the modernist grid, wrenching the
grid asunder in various energized and interesting ways….Mattera
succeeds in achieving many visual outcomes with a limited range
of materials, producing works in which every scratch and drip yield
something different.”
--Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
July 17, 1999
“Joanne Mattera…employs a grid-based field for her
sensuous abstract encaustic paintings. She works with a classic
formula of beeswax colored with oil-based dispersion pigments to
build up as many as twenty layers of translucent paint. The surface
is further enriched through incising lines into which pigment is
rubbed, making marks with oil stick or oil pastel, or scraping
to reveal previous strata.”
--Gail Stavitsky, curator, Montclair
Art Museum, from the catalog, "Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art
in America," 1999
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