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Updated: 8.7.2007














JOANNE MATTERA

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
2004 Arden Gallery, Boston
2004 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2004 Simon Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey
2003 Arden Gallery, Boston
2003 Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
2002 Simon Gallery, Morristown
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

2003 Art Santa Fe, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
Tickled Pink, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Serenity Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale 
Wish You Were Here Too, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City     
The Way of Wax, Winfisky Gallery at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts 
Art Miami, Arden Gallery, Boston 
2002 Work on Paper, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Lush Abstraction, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago
The Affordable Art Fair,  Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City
Hot Wax, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London
Artcetera,  Boston Center for the Arts, Boston 
Works on Paper, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
The Postcard Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Enkaustikos: Wax As a Contemporary Medium, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Centering, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Water, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
Generations III, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Art San Francisco, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
Encaustic Now, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Encaustic Works, Arden Gallery, Boston
Encaustic, Encaustic: Joanne Mattera and Friends, Art Mecca/Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago
Large-Scale Painting, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdal
Deck the Walls, Newzones Gallery, Calgary
2000 Constant Aesthetic, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Inagural Exhibition, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale
The Other Side and This Side: The Art of Italian-American Women, Casa Italiana, New York City
Pieces IV, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York City
Aestheic Boundaries, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey 
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Signs, Codes and Surfaces, 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 , A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City 
Ron Ehrlich, Gregory Johnston, Joanne Mattera, Hiro Yokose, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
1997 Cultural Markers, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
1 + 1 + 3: Independent Artists, Collaborative Art, 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, (Juror's award: Jacquie Littlejohn, juror), 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City     
Virtuosity: International Art Fair, The Armory, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
Summer Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York City 
A Grand Affair, Art Initiatives at 420 Broadway, New York City
About Drawing, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Waxing Minimal: Three Painters, 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, Mass.
1993 93 Wishes for '94,Steinbaum Kraus Gallery, New York City
Small Works, East West Cultural Center, New York City
Small Works, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City
Works on Paper (Curator: Andre Emmerich), Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.
1982 Works on Paper, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta
Artists and the Grid, Svetlana Rockwell Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
1981 Collage: Eleven Contemporary Artists, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
Third Biennial, Savaria Museum, Szombatheley, Hungary
1980 Five Artists: Process and Product, Art Colloquium Gallery, Salem, Mass.
Artist/Artisan, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
Paper, Hera Gallery, Providence

Curated, Juried Exhibitions     

2003 1993 1982 The Whole Ball of Wax, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Objects of their Affection, InterArt Center, New York City
Artists on the Grid, Svetlana Rockwell Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
    
  Selected Collections
    
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey Library,
State University of New York at Albany
Red Wheel/Weiser Books,
Boston Beacon Properties,
Boston Pacific Peninsula Group, Menlo Park, California
U.S. Embassy, Ljubljana,
Slovenia Consulate of Brunei,
Brunei Eduardo Calma Architecture, Makati City, Philippines
Private collections, United States and the Philippines       
    
Selected Publications     
    
The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, New York, 2001    
    
  Talks, Panels     
    
Weissman Visiting Artist, Connecticut College, New London  2002 Panelist, Ellis Island, New York City, Italian American Women Artists  2001 Speaker, Casa Italiana, New York University, Material Influences 2000 Panelist, Artists Talk on McGowan Fine Art, MacGowan Fine Art, McGowen Fine Art, McGowan Fine Arts, New Hampshire Gallery, New Hampshire Galleries, Gallery of Contemporary Northern New England artists,Art, New York City, Encaustic Painting 2000 Visiting Artist, State University of New York at Albany 1999 Speaker, Painter's Forum, New York City, Encaustic Painting 1999    
    
  Selected Bibliography     
    
Books
Voices and Representations of Italian and Italian American Women, Bordighera Press, 2003; Elizabeth Messina, ed.
Spirit Maps, Red Wheel Books, 2001; Joanna Arettam
Lesbian Art in America, Rizzoli, 2000; Harmony Hammond
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, 1999; The Montclair Art, Museum/Rutgers University Press; Gail Stavitsky, ed.     

Articles, Essays, Reviews
Boston Sunday Globe, "Critics' Picks," Christine Temin; April 28, 2003
Boston Globe, "Critics' Picks," Cate McQuaid; April 18, 2003
Arts Media, "Joanne Mattera: Paintings in Encaustic," Shawn Hill; April-May, 2003
The Week, "Joanne Mattera at Arden Gallery, Boston," April 19, 2003 Scottsdale Republic, "Eclectic Mix at Cervini Haas," Roberta Burnett, April 16, 2003
IONS Review, portfolio, Barbara McNeill; Issue 63, March 2003-June 2003
IONS Review, portfolio, Barbara McNeill; Issue 62, Dec. 2002-Feb. 2003
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Expanding the Possibilities of Paper," Jerry Cullum; November 15, 2002
New York Times, "Hot Wax," William Zimmer; November 10, 2002
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, "Uttar: Poetics of Materiality and Process,"  Flavia Rando, Ph.D.; September 2002
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Novel Process, Classical Elegance," Edward J.Sozanski; May 19, 2002
Philadelphia Weekly, "Play On," Roberta Fallon; May 10, 2002
Philadelphia Daily Local News, "Ancient Medium Explored Again," R.B. Strauss; May 4, 2002
Boston Sunday Globe, "The Process," profile, Catherine Foster; March 3, 2002
Art New England, "The Art of Encaustic Painting," book review, Susan Schwalb; February/March 2002
Arizona Republic, "Beauty of Encaustic Has its Price," John Carlos Villani; November 18, 2001
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Waxing Eloquent," Catherine Fox; October 12, 2001
Creative Loafing: Atlanta, "Waxing Beautiful: The Art of Encaustic Painting at Marcia Wood Gallery," Cathy Byrd; October 2001
Manila Today, "Art Guide," review; June 6, 2000
The Philippine Star, "Gallery News," review; June 5, 2000
Art in America, "Joanne Mattera at Marcia Wood," Jerry Cullum; March 2000
Design and Architecture, Manila, "An Italian Spell in Taygatay," Alane Ty; February 2000
New York Arts, "Picks," Christopher Chambers; October 1997
Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Four Artists Aimed at the Stars," Jerry Cullum; October 3, 1997
William and Mary Review, portfolio, ed. Erica Weitzman; Vol. 35, 1997
Artforum, "Objects of Their Affection at Interart Center," Keith Seward;     February 1994
Art Voices, "Joanne Mattera," profile, Jessica Scarborough; July 1981
Driadi, "Du Blanc a la Couleur," Michel Thomas; April 1981
Maenad, "Joanne Mattera," portfolio; Spring 1981
Sojourner, "Risks Pay Off," Jessica Scarborough; August 1980
American Craft, "Portfolio," Spring 1980
    
  Education     
    
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA Painting     
Goddard College, MA Visual Arts     
    


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