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Creating art has always been a spiritual experience for me. I create to satisfy my own curiosity about the magic in our lives. That magic appears on a sheet of paper when I draw a face, a moose, a flower. Visions of mountains, trees, and oceans appear when I paint shapes and colors. My work is representational and explores exterior and interior landscapes and the natural world. Over the years, I have experimented with many media: printmaking, sculpture, bookmaking, watercolor, oils, acrylics, and various drawing media. In our slick, digital, computer generated world, I want to see the impression made by the human hand. I like the wrinkles in handmade papers, the torn or deckle edge, and the imperfect flow of the paint on the surface. I like the intimacy we experience when we page through a book instead of looking at a computer screen. Joan Wolbier BIOGRAPHY My career began with a BA degree with Honors in Sculpture from the College of William and Mary (Virginia) and, in 2004, I completed an MA degree in K-12 Art Education from Catholic University (Washington, DC). I have studied classical drawing techniques with Robert Liberaci; watercolor painting with Gwendolyn C. Bragg and Carolyn GrosseGawarecki and in workshops with Stephen Quiller, Cheng-Khee Chee, and Carl Schmalz; and plein air oil painting with Chris Groves. My drawings, paintings, prints, and artist's books have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. I have published 3 limited edition artists' books, Arachne/Amaranth, 23 Eggs, and Passages: Understood and Agreed. Arachne/Amaranth was partially funded with a National Endowment for the Arts grant and 23 Eggs was partially funded by a grant from Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD. My artist's books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC). Arachne/Amaranth is included in The Century of Artists' Books, Johanna Drucker, Granary Books, 1995, pp. 136-37, photo page 136. RESUME For a more information about my exhibition history, please download my resume. |
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