Signs of the Times

The theme of this exhibition can be interpreted in any way the artist sees fit.  It can be expressed through abstraction, representation, political art, social commentary, identity art, etc.

Juror, Joanne Mattera,  artist, author, curator

Juror, Joanne Mattera is an artist who also writes and curates regularly. Her popular Joanne Mattera Art Blog offers a largely visual look at exhibitions and art fairs in New York City and elsewhere. Her most recent curatorial efforts include Depth Perception, a 19-artist exhibition that considered dimension in physical or implied space, for the Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2017;  and A Few Conversations About Color, a visual discourse among seven artists, for DM Contemporary in New York City, 2015.

Mattera, a  widely exhibited painter , works in a style that is chromatically resonant and compositionally reductive. From 'Dawn to Dusk,' her 35th career solo, took place recently at ODETTA Gallery in Chelsea. Folding both writing and entrepreneurial projects into her practice, she is the author of 'The Art of Encaustic Painting' (Watson Guptill, 2001), and founder/director emerita of the International Encaustic Conference, which continues annually in Provincetown Mass. Her memoir, 'Vita: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art,' was published in 2019 by Well-Fed Artist Press. 
An illustrated resume is online.