Joanne Mattera Studio Newsletter

 






In the Galleries

 

1947 Palmer Avenue

Larchmont, New York 

  

 
Clockwise from top left:  

Vicolo 50, 42, 64, 63, 33, 31; 

each 12 x 12 inches

 

Look for paintings from my
Vicolo series in Gallery 2, 
where the work of a rotating group of gallery artists is on exhibition. You may ask to 
see more of my work.
 

 

 

  

Arden Gallery

129 Newbury Street

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 
Silk Road 191,
2014, 12 x 12 inches
 
I'm about to deliver eight new
Silk Road paintings. Expect to
see several in Arden's 
salon-style installation in the
back gallery, and of course you
may ask to see the others.

 

 

  

 

 
On Cape Cod 
This Summer

Encaustic Conference in 
Provincetown
 
Sea, salt air and . . . wax. 

The Eighth International Encaustic Conference, an 

event I founded in 2007 and 

now produce in conjunction 

with Truro Center for the Arts 

at Castle Hill, will take place in Provincetown the weekend of June 6-8. Some 250 artists 

from around the world, fully engaged with the medium of pigmented wax, will be joined 

by critics, curators, and art dealers, to discuss and view encaustic as a medium for contemporary artmaking 

and consider issues in professional practice. 

 

While paid registration is the 

only way to attend the Conference, six concurrent exhibitions in the Provincetown galleries and at Castle Hill 

are open to the public. 

Click here for more information about the exhibitions.    

 

Workshops will take place 

at Castle Hill June 2-5 

and 9-13. Click here to visit Castle Hill's workshop registration page. 

The Conference blog, which 

I maintain, contains updates 

and additional info about exhibitions, accommodations, and related need-to-know. 

 

 

  

A Conversation on Art Criticism in Wellfleet
 
On July 9  Barry Schwabsky, 
Mira Schor and Helen Miranda Wilson will talk about writing about art. I'll moderate. The evening is sponsored by 
Truro Center for the Arts 
at Castle Hill. Click here for 
more information on the 
Castle Hill website.  

 

 

 

 

Do You Read My Blog? 

 

reports and reflects on 

exhibtions in New York City 

and elsewhere in the 

Northeast--sometimes farther afield--as well as at the art 

fairs in Miami.The blog has 
had close to 2 million hits 
since I started tracking readership in 2009.

 

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Coming 

 

In November: Solo exhibition,
Chromatic Reasoning, at 
Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson

 

 

In January, 2015: Group exhibition, From Gesture to Geometry, at Endicott College, Manninen Center for the Arts, Beverly, Mass.

 

 

In April, 2015: Speaking in Color, six artists working chromatically at The Curator Gallery in New York City 

 

 

 

  

I try not to send out newsletters too often, but when I do there's a lot to share with you. If you're in New York or New England, as I am, please take a look at the current and coming exhibitions and events noted here.

--J.M.

 

    

Swept Away at the Hunterdon Art Museum  

 

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey

Now through September 7

 

  

Rummu, 
2012, encaustic on panel, 32 x 32 inches
 

 

Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic at the Hunterdon Art Museum through September 7. Curated by Michael Giaquinto for the Cape Cod Museum of Art last year, it has traveled to this lovely museum which is located in a former grist mill on the Raritan River. The salient feature of encaustic--pigmented wax--is luminosity, which this exhibition features in a variety of paintings, prints and sculptures by 29 artists from around the country.

Additional information: 
  
 
 
American Abstract Artists at Sideshow Gallery
 
To Leo: A Tribute from American Abstract Artists
Sideshow Gallery 
319 Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
June 14-July 12
Opening: June 14, 6:00-9:00 p.m.; I'll be there

 

 
Diamond Life 29,
2013, encaustic on panel, 22.5 x 22.5 inches

 

 

This exhibition is in honor of Leo Rabkin, the 95-year-old president emeritus of AAA, with many of the organization's 100 members participating. American Abstract Artists is an artist-run organization founded in 1936 in New York City to promote and foster understanding of abstract and non-objective art. I am one of about a dozen artists recently accepted into the organization, and this is my first exhibition with the group. Sideshow Gallery info here

 
 
 
Invitational at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
 
Summer Invitational
Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 W. 20th Street
New York City
June 26-July 25
Opening: Thursday, June 26,  6:00-8:00 p.m.; I'll be there
 
This exhibition promises to be rich in color and geometry in the work of Rick Klauber, Paul Mogensen, Gary Petersen, Sarah Walker and myself. 
Gallery information here
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Selection of new work delivered to the gallery, from top:
 Chromatic Geometry 22, 21, 20,
each encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches