Joanne Greenbaum
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Joanne Greenbaum (b. 1953, New York, US) is an artist based in New York.
Greenbaum received her BA in 1975 from Bard College [1] in New York.
Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including “Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity” at P.S. 1 [2] in New York, “Examining Pictures” at Armand Hammer Gallery [3], Los Angeles and “Ballpoint Inklings” at K.S. Art [4], New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums such as Galerie Catherine Bastide [5] in Belgium, Kunsthalle Basel [6] in Switzerland and Galerie Anne De Villepoix [7] in France. She is represented by Greengrassi [8] in London and D’Amelio Terras [9] in New York.
Joanne Greenbaum’s playful abstractions approach painting with a sense of liberation. Primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts, her canvases don’t follow proscribed formulas of conventional painting, but rather continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve. Greenbaum’s works emerge through an organic process. Her compositions are directed by their continuously synthesising forms, while tension is created through the spontaneous immediacy of the artist’s hand. A deliberate lack of editing transpires as painterly confidence: each gesture contains an importance of its own realisation and ultimate contribution.
Greenbaum’s ‘diagram’ motifs act as both structural devices and extensions of her painterly consumption; her delicately drawn lines exhibit a contemplated intimacy and dimension of fantastical space, suggesting an inexhaustible microcosm of illusionary delight. Greenbaum’s architectural patterns swell from and dissolve into attenuated mark-making. Her chaotic compositional systems serve as formalist play; her forms drip, spill and overlap in aesthetic competition: doodled symbols claim territories, while traces of lines rise defiantly through rich fields of colour. By brandishing her process, Joanne Greenbaum’s paintings resonate with a sense of passing time, monumentalising the history of their own creation.
