EDUCATION

Massachusetts College of Art, BFA Painting
Goddard College, MA Visual Arts

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Simon Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey
2001 Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2000 Arden Gallery, Boston
2000 Espace Gallery, Manila, Philippines
1999 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
1996 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City
1995 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001
"Encaustic Now" Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
"The Art of Encaustic Painting" Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
"Encaustic, Encaustic: Joanne Mattera and Friends" Art Mecca Gallery, Chicago
"Encaustic Works" Arden Gallery, Boston
"Large-Scale Painting" Cervini-Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
Red Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

2000
"Constant Aesthetic" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium" AIR Gallery, New York City
Inaugural Exhibition Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
"The Other Side and This Side: The Art of Italian and Italian-American Women" Casa Italiana, New York City
"Pieces IV" Gallery 128, New York City
"Aesthetic Boundaries" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City

1999
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America (catalog) Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
"Signs, Codes and Surfaces I and II" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"Pieces III" Gallery 128, New York City
Los Angeles National: Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"1998 Contemporary Wax" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"Small Works" 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City
"Generations" AIR Gallery, New York City
"Night of 1,000 Drawings" Artists Space, New York City
Group Show: Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta (review)
1997 Cultural Markers: Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"1 + 1 + 3: Independent Artists, Collaborative Art" (catalog) Alicia Torres Gallery, New York City
"Material Girls: Gender, Process and Abstract Art Since 1970" Gallery 128, New York City
- (Curator: Harmony Hammond)
Paper Project: Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston
"Painting and Sculpture National" San Jacinto College, Houston (Juror’s award: Howard Fox, juror)
Inaugural Show: Christine Adapon Gallery, Manila, Philippines

1996
"Cultural Markers" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"Small Works International" Amos Eno Gallery, New York City

1995
" Small Works" Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
"Small Works" 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City
- (Juror’s award: Jacquie Littlejohn, juror)
Virtuosity International Art Fair, The Armory, New York City
"Summer Show" Phoenix Gallery, New York City
- (Juror: Thelma Golden)
"A Grand Affair" Art Initiatives at 420 Broadway, New York City
"About Drawing" Meridian Gallery, San Francisco

1994
"Waxing Minimal: Joanne Mattera, Inger Sand Lee, Tom Sime" Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City
"Signs, Codes & Alphabets" Tribeca 148, New York City
"Small Works" 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City
The Midwinter Salon: Puchong Gallery, New York City
"The Mundane Becomes Beautiful" Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown

1993
"93 Wishes for '94" Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York City
"Small Works" East West Cultural Center, New York City
"Small Works" Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City
"Works on Paper" Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (catalog)
(Curator: Andre Emmerich)

1982
"Works on Paper"Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta
"Artists and the Grid" Svetlana Rockwell Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1981
"Collage: Eleven Contemporary Artists" Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Third Biennial: Savaria Museum, Szombatheley, Hungary

1980
"Five Artists: Process and Product" (catalog) Art Colloquium Gallery, Salem, MA
"Artist/Artisan" Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
"Paper" (catalog) Hera Gallery, Providence, RI

1979
Ninth International Biennial: (catalog) Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Paper: Metamorphoses" Florence Duhl Gallery, New York City
"New Work" Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston

1978
"New Works" Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York City
"Small Works: An Invitational" Touchstone Gallery, New York City


COLLECTIONS

The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
U.S. Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Consulate of Brunei, Brunei
Eduardo Calma Architecture, Makati City, Philippines
Library, State University of New York at Albany
Private collections, United States and the Philippines
Selected Bibliography
Spirit Maps, Red Wheel Books, 2001; Joanna Arettam
Lesbian Art in America, Rizzoli, 2000; Harmony Hammond
Art in America, review, Jerry Cullum, March 2000
Design and Architecture, Alane Ty, February 2000
New York Arts, review, Christopher Chambers, October 1997
Atlanta Journal Constitution, review, Jerry Cullum, October 3, 1997
William and Mary Review, portfolio, ed. Erica Weitzman; Vol. 35, 1997
Art Voices, profile, Jessica Scarborough, July/August 1981
Driadi, "Du blanc a la couleur," review, ed. Michel Thomas, April 1981
Maenad, portfolio, Spring 1981
American Craft, portfolio, Spring 1980


PUBLICATIONS

The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, 2001

RECENT TALKS and PANELS

Panelist, Ellis Island, NYC; Italian American Women Artists March, 2001
Speaker, Casa Italiana, New York Univ., Material Influences April, 2000
Panelist, Artists Talk on Art, NYC; Encaustic Painting February, 2000
Visiting Artist, State Univ. of New York at Albany November, 1999
Speaker, Painter’s Forum, NYC; Encaustic Painting October, 1999