In this
episode, I talk to artist Joanne Greenbaum about education,
politics of art language, the deep internal intelligence in
painting, the power of introversion, mark-making, color and her
exploration of materials. We dive into so many wonderful topics
including the myth that "real artists don't have day jobs" and
"everything has been done".
Joanne
Greenbaum earned a BA from Bard College, Annadale-on- Hudson, NY.
Over the past twenty years, Joanne Greenbaum has exhibited widely
at international venues including at the Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Overland Park, KS; Kusthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf,
Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York, NY; among many others. In 2008, a
career-spanning survey of her work, with corresponding catalogue,
was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland and traveled
to the Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany. In 2018, The
Tufts University Art Galleries at the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston, MA mounted Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said
Today, a comprehensive
solo exhibition that traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design
in Los Angeles, CA.
Greenbaum is the recipient of numerous awards and
fellowships, including The Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Joan Mitchell
Foundation Grant; Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation,
Marfa, TX; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. Her work is included in the
collections of the Brandeis Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; CCA
Andratx, Majorca, ES; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Haus
Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich, CH; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach,
Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and the Ross Art Collection at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Greenbaum lives and
works in New York.
Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today,
Exhibition Brochure with Essay by Kate McNamara, Jan. 2018