About the Artist
Biography
“My passion is for the natural world, and I am especially drawn to water, rocks and trees in their spectacular variety. I work in sculptural acrylics, with texture, color and shapes giving a three-dimensional effect. My works are inspired by my travels and enhanced by my imagination.” - JM
Joan has been a painter for most of her life, starting in oils, and discovering acrylics in the 1970's. She studied art and architecture at Cornell University in upstate New York, and art at Colorado College. Her first exhibitions were in Tunis, Tunisia, and Washington, DC as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Joan has exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the Southeast and in New Mexico. Three of her works were showcased at Art Expo NY in Manhattan, an international art fair with thousands of visitors in Oct 2021. She has had 32 solo exhibitions in the Southeastern US, and has participated in 25 juried international, national, and regional shows on the East and West coasts of the US, and 40 other US group shows. She was honored to serve as Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine for July 2011.
Joan's works are in many private and public collections across the US, Canada and abroad. They have shown and sold in galleries in Santa Fe, NM; Raleigh, NC; Chapel Hill, NC; Charlotte, NC; Saxapahaw, NC; and Salvo, NC. New works can be seen at her Chapel Hill NC studio, open year round by appointment.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, May-Jun 2019
Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel Hill NC, Mar-Apr 2019
Nature Gallery, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh NC, Feb 2019
Women’s Health Info. Center, NC Women’s Hospital, Chapel Hill NC, Dec 2018- Jan 2019
Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce, Hillsborough, NC, Sep 2018
This and That Gift Gallery, Carrboro NC April 2017
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, NC, Jan-Feb 2017
Reflection Gallery, Church of the Good Shepherd, Apr-May 2016
NC Crafts Gallery, Carrboro, NC, April 2015
The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Mar - Apr 2013
Raymond James Investment Offices, Durham, NC, Sep - Dec, 2012
Shared Vision Retreat Center, Durham NC, Mar - Apr, 2012
Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill NC, October 2009, March 2009, March 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions:
20th Anniversary Exhibition with Chris Meade, The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Sept -Oct 2023
68th Annual Durham Art Guild Juried Exhibition, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, Oct-Dec 2022
64th National Juried Art Show, Imperial Center, Rocky Mount, NC May-August 2022
Scenes, d'Art Center, Norfolk VA, Jan Feb 2022 (national juried exhibition)
Art Expo NY, Manhattan, NY, Oct 2021 (international art fair)
2021 National Juried Show, Floyd Art Center, Floyd VA, Aug Sep 2021
Resolutions 2020, Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough NC, Jan 2020 (regional juried t show)
Reclaiming My Time, National Humanities Center, Durham NC, Sept-Dec 2019
(11 state juried show)
65th Annual Durham Art Guild Juried Exhibition, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, Aug-Oct 2019 (regional)
Impressionism vs Realism, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, May 2018
(International juried show)
Unchained, IMURJ, Raleigh, NC, Apr 2018 (Regional juried show)
Scope 17- Southern Landscape, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC, June 2017
(Regional juried show)
Water Works, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD; Sep -Oct, 2015
(National juried show)
Carolina's Got Art, Charlotte, NC, June 2015, October 2009 (Two state juried show)
Orange County Artists Guild Open Studio Tour, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2007, 2006, 2005
SaxArt at Carrboro Library, Carrboro, NC, Jan - Mar 2013
Bank of the Arts, New Bern, NC, May - Jun, 2012 (NC juried show)
Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill, NC, Jan- Feb, 2012
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC, May- Oct, 2011
Chapel Hill Artists Spring Show (4 artists), Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2011
Six Chapel Hill Artists, Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill NC, Feb 2010
In Collections by City:
Public: Acadia National Park Headquarters, Maine, Men’s Shelter, Chapel Hill NC
Private: in Cambridge England; Dublin, Ireland; San Miguel, Mexico; Calgary, Alberta; Tucson AZ; Escondido and San Diego CA; Boulder and Denver CO; Washington DC; Ponte Vedra Beach and Port St. Lucie FL; Grantham and Walpole NH; Santa Fe NM; Ballston Lake NY; Cleveland, Marietta and Marion OH; Simpsonville SC; Blacksburg, Charlottesville and Richmond VA; Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Efland, Hillsborough, Pittsboro, Raleigh and Youngsville NC
