Artist Statement
My work is a hybrid combining painting, sculpture, and installation. I work with color and light, using acrylic on paper, and the phenomena of reflected color on the wall. Each piece is an interaction between painted paper elements mounted out from the wall, and color cast on the wall by unseen fluorescent paint on the back of the paper, which implicates the wall and the surrounding space in the piece.
These constructions exist in the gap between painting and object. Subtle manipulation of color relationships between the frontal plane and the colored glow on the wall causes an optical disorientation, which raises questions about the discrepancy between what we see and what we know. I challenge myself to make work that is optically assertive and spatially ambiguous with the slightest material means.
Joan Grubin
EDUCATION
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
MFA Vermont College
National Academy of Design
Art Students League
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 New Work Simon Gallery Morristown, New Jersey
2002 Wall Constructions Art Design Digression Gallery, Hudson, NY
2000 Recent Paintings Art Design Digression Gallery
1997 Domestic Visions Past and Present Anthony Nordoff Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
1996 Paintings Columbia Community Gallery, Hudson, NY
1988 New Work Atlantic Gallery, New York,NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Pattern and Concept Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
White as Color Art League of Long Island, Huntington, Long Island
Jump Henry Gregg Gallery Brooklyn (DUMBO), NY
2005 Project Diversity Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Waves of Light Pocketbook Factory, Hudson NYd
2004 Affordable Art Fair Gallery d3 Chelsea Piers NY
Summer Group Show John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Looking in / Looking Out Paul Mellon Art Center, Wallingford, CT
Open Spectrum T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center, Montpelier, Vt.
Paper Constructions S1 Art Space, Williamsburg, NY
Abstract Identities Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
Stripes Meeting House Gallery, New Marlboro, Mass. (upcoming)
2003 38th Juried Exhibition Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Subject / Object OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Art of the Northeast Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT, Juror: Allan Stone
Location: A Survey of Hudson Valley Artists Kendall Art and Design Gallery,
Hudson, NY
1998 Columbia County Juried Exhibition, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
1998 Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Anthony Nordoff Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1997 Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1996 Lizan-Tops Gallery, Easthampton, NY
1995 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1994 Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
1989 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
