Joan Thorne
Biography:
EDUCATION
Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, 1965
New York University, New York, B.S., 1968
Website: www.joanthorne.com, Email: jdreamer33@gmail.com
Phone: +1 (646) 684-7671
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Upcoming Exhibition, A Painting Survey, “Odyssey of Color”, David Richard Gallery,
New York, NY
2021 Retrospective, Light, Layers, Insight at The Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, December 30, 2020 – January 3, 2021
2019 Visionary Color and Light – Paintings of the 1980s, Quogue Gallery, Quogue, NY, July 11 – 31, 2019
Art Palm Beach Fair, Palm Beach Florida
2017 The Ghost Picked Me to Paint the Song, Freddy Gallery, Harris, NY, October 7 – 29
2015 Black and white into color, National Arts Club, New York City, NY
A Passion for Color, Gallery on Main, Windham, NY, October 17 – December 17
2013 Joan Thorne – Recent Paintings, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 12– November 10
2010 Joan Thorne – Recent Paintings, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 19 – December 19
2005 Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
2001 André Zarre Gallery, New York City
2000 Joan Thorne – A Retrospective, Museo de Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 7 – April 16
1998 Joan Thorne. Una Retrospectiva, Museo Voluntariado De Las Casas Reales Casa De Bastida, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Joan Thorne Una Retrospectiva, Museo Patronato Plaza de la Cultura Santiago Apostol, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
1996 Ramapo College, NJ
1990 Joan Thorne, Graham Modern, New York City, October 25 – November 24
1989 Joan Thorne, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, April 29 – June 3
1988 Joan Thorne – The Rome Paintings, Graham Modern, New York City, April 28 – May 26
1986 Joan Thorne, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Joan Thorne. An Exhibition of Drawings, William Halsey Gallery, Simon Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, SC, April 22 – May 18
1985 Joan Thorne, Graham Modern, New York City, May 22–June 21, 1985
1983 Lincoln Center Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City
1983 Joan Thorne – Recent Paintings, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 4 – December 5
1983 Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
1982 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Willard Gallery, New York, October 2 – 27
1980 Willard Gallery, New York, February 7 – March 5
1980 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979 Clocktower Gallery, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City
1977 Galerie Veith Turske, Internationaler Kunstmarkt (IKM), Cologne, Germany
1975 Alfred University, Alfred, NY, December
1974 Fischbach Gallery, New York City
1973 Joan Thorne: Paintings Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 15 –January 7
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH "American Painting: The Eighties Revisited"
2019 National Arts Club, Women Out of Doors, New York, NY
Market Art and Design, Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY
Art On Paper Fair, Pier 36, New York, NY
2018 Sideshow Gallery, New York
2017 Sideshow Gallery, New York
2016 Sideshow Gallery, New York
2015 Outside The Lines/Modernist Drawings, National Arts Club, NY Sideshow Gallery, New York
2014 National Arbor Day Show,National Arts Club, New York
ArtHamptons Fair, July 10-13, East Hampton, NY
Merton D. Simpson Gallery, Tribal and Contemporary Art, June 12- July 28, New York, NY
Sideshow Gallery, New York
2013 SideShow Gallery, New York
2012 SideShow Gallery, New York
Brick Gallery, Hudson, NY, “ Cowgirls Of The Hudson Valley”
2011 Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SideShow Gallery, New York
2005 Works on Paper, Sideshow Gallery (Vered Lieb and Richard Timperio, curators), Chicago, IL
2004 Contemporary Women Artists: New York, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Gallerie Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy
2002 Gallery Uno Spazio Su Misura, Milan, Italy
2001 “PAINTED: Viewpoints of Recent Developments of Abstract Painting in New York,” curatedby James Little at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York
“The Art of Giving” presented by New York Net-Works, Hayworth Showroom, New York
2000 The Painting Center, New York, “Straight Painting,” curated by James Little
1998 R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California, “Illuminated Under White Light”
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California
1996 Museo Voluntariado de Las Casas Reales, Casa de Bastidas “Encuentro", Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
La Galeria, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Guernica Galeria de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Arawak Arte Conteporaneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Casa Peynado Galeria, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Makana Gallery. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Techa Galeria, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
1995 News, Surprise and Nostalgia, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York City
Loan Show Lobby of 909 Third Ave., Corporate Art Directions, New York
1994 The Exuberant 80s, André Zarre Gallery, New York City
Through Thick and Thin, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
1991 Abstract Painting of the 90’s, André Emmerich Gallery, Barbara Rose (curator), New York City
Invitational, New York Stock Exchange, New York City
Graham Modern, "Selections"
1989 Graham Modern, "Synthesis"
1988 Andre Zarre Gallery, "More Than Color", New York
Graham Modern, "Preview From The Past"
1987 Romantic Science, One Penn Plaza, New York City
Prix de Rome Paintings. American Academy in Rome Annual Exhibition: American Academy in Rome
1986 Diptychs, Triptychs, Polyptychs, Graham Modern, New York City
1985 The Art of the 1970’s and 1980’s, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
An Affair of the Heart, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Non–Objective Painting, Kamakazie Gallery (Stephen Westfall, curator), New York City
Summer Yellows, Graham Modern
1984 Heroic/Poetic, Visual Arts Museum, New York City
American Women Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City
Emblems of Imagination, Islip Art Museum (Karen Shaw, curator), Islip, NY
Luxe Calme et Volupté: Nine Abstract Artists & Their Use of Color, One Penn Plaza (John Yau, curator), New York City
Abstract Painting: Painting by Women Artists, N.Y.C.W.C.A., New York City
Artists from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1983 Jayne Baum Gallery, New York
Judith Christian Gallery, New York
Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University,"Painting", Providence, RI
1982 Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas (two-person show)
N.Y.C.W.C.A., "Abstract Painting: Painting by Women Artists", New York
Guild Hall Museum, "Artists from the Edward F. Albee Foundation", East Hampton, NY
Tyler School of Art, "Tyler Visiting Artists '82-83",Temple University, PA
1981 Whitney Museum of American Art, “1981 Biennial Exhibition”, New York
New Directions, Sidney Janis Gallery (Sam Hunter, curator), New York City
Susan L. Usdan Gallery, "The Broken Surface", Bennington
College, VT. Traveled to Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; Owens Hall Art Gallery, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, "Paper Work", Buffalo, NY
1980 L’Amérique aux Indépendents, Société des Artistes Indépendents, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Seven Young Americans, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City
Paper–works for the Serious Collector, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Drawings 1980, Landmark Gallery
U.S. Art '80, Ericson Gallery, New York
C.A.P.S. Fellow1979-1980, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
New York on Paper, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City
1979 Willard Gallery, New York City
Generation, Susan Caldwell Gallery, Inc. (Michael Walls, curator), New York City
American Paintings: The Eighties, Grey Art Gallery (Barbara Rose, curator), New York City; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; American Center for Art and Culture, Paris, France
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1978 Willard Gallery, New York City
Thick Paint, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bronx Museum, O.I.A. Exhibition, Bronx, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, "Eight Abstract Painters", Philadelphia
1977 Woman in Art: Working Papers, Albany, New York; United States Courthouse, TX
Paintings, New York, Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Paintings from the Aldrich Museum Collection, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Parsons School of Design, "Faculty Show", New York
"SoHo at Montauk", Montauk, New York
1974 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
GEDOK American Women Artists Show, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
State University of New York, "Tight and Loose", Potsdam & Albany
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, “Whitney Annual”, New York
New York Institute of Technology, Long Island, NY
Loeb Center, New York University, "Five Painters", NY1972
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Spring Annual", Ridgefield, CT
Bard College, "Painting on Paper," Annandale, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Lincoln Center Poster Collection and Gallery, New York, NY
Smorgon Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, NY
Roselyn C. Swig, Artsource, San Francisco, CA
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
2006 Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant for Painting
2003 Prize in Painting, Biennale Internazionale, Florence, Italy
2001 Grant in Painting, Pollock Krasner Foundation
1987 Grant in Painting, Pollock Krasner Foundation
1986 Prix de Rome in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome
1986 Grant in Painting, Pollock Krasner Foundation
1983 Fellowship in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts
1980 Grant in Painting, New York State Council on the Arts
1979 Fellowship in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts
1976 Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1975 Grant for Painting, New York State Council on the Arts
1974 Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1972 Artist of the Year Award, Aldrich Foundation
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
1993 Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1991 (and ’79,’76,’74), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1981 MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, NH
1977 (and ’78) Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
1977 Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
VIDEOS, TALKS AND LECTURES
2021 Conversation With Curator Kate Bonansinga, Cincinnati Art Museum,Cincinnati, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-flMClpmY
2020 Interview with Joanna Garner, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJUc3Ekbso
2012 BMCC CUNY Interview at Sideshow Gallery New York
2012 Video on YouTube-Joan Thorne Interview at Sideshow
2000 Opening Night Retrospective Show at Museo De Las Americas San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 Opening Night Retrospective Show at Museo De Casa De Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Opening Night Retrospective Museo La Plaza De La Cultura, Santiago, Dominican Republic
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Vine, Richard, An Abstract Destiny, Joan Thorne in Context: Catalog Essay
Light Layers Insight Exhibition at The Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA
Colaizzi, Vittorio, Joan Thorne and the Mirror of Modern Painting, Catalog Essay
Light Layers Insight Exhibition at the Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA
2016 Colaizzi,Vittorio, Women’s Art Journal, Spring/Summer
2013 Pechman. Ali, ARTnews, Review, January 2014, New York
Panero, James, The New Criterion, “Joan Thorne’s Musical Paintings,” Review November, 2013
2011 Douglas, Manson, Art In America, Review April, 2011
2010 Ken Johnson, New York Times, Review, November 26, 2010
Art in Review- Joan Thorne ‘Recent Paintings’, Sideshow Gallery, November 26, 2010, New York
Emily Canal, Review, The New York Observer Review, “Joan Thorne Recent Paintings”, Sideshow Gallery, December 22, 2010, New York
2005 James Kalm, “Works on Paper” review of a show at SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York for the Brooklyn Rail.
2001 Morgan, Robert C., “Mythical Journeys, Power and Flight,” essay for the catalogue of one person show at Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
Morgan, Robert C., “PAINTED: The Presence of the Past,” essay for the catalogue of the show at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY
Marceles, Eduardo, “La Pintura metafisica de Joan Thorne,” Vida Hoy , November 2, New York
2000 Westfall, Stephen, “Wild Beauty,” essay in catalogue for retrospective exhibition at Museo de Las Americas, March, April
Morgan C., Robert, “Straight Painting”, essay for brochure of the exhibition at the Painting Center, New York,October
Barrios, Mario Alegre, “Thorne en el espejo de su obra,” Por Dentro El Nuevo Dia, Sunday, March 5.
1998 Vine, Richard, Art In America Magazine, June, review of retrospective museum exhibition at: Museo Voluntariado De Las Casas Reales, Casa De Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.
Southgate,Therese M. MD, Cover of JAMA The Journal of American Medicine Association, September 16.
De Tolentino, Marianne, “Retrospectiva de la Norteamericana Joan Thorne,” Listin Diario , February 1, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep.
Los Santos, Danilo, “Las Calidades y esencias de Joan Thorne,” El Caribe , January 17, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep.
Goris, Virginia, “Joan Thorne en retrospectiva: una evaluacion al trabajo de tres decades,” Ultima Hora, January 11, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep.
Polanco, Fausto, “Casa de Bastidas presentara muestra de Joan Thorne,” El Siglo , January 9, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep.
Variedades, “Joan Thorne en Casa de Bastidas,” Hoy , January 12, Santo Domingo, Dom.,Rep.
La Nacion , “Casa de Bastidas exhibira muestra artista norteamericana,” January 11, Santo Domingo, Dom.,Rep. Nova, Claudine,”Encountro en Republica Dominica, mistica y magia para mi trabajo,” Listin Diario, January 12, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep.
El Caribe , “Abriran Muestra Joan Thorne,” January 7, Santo Domingo
Terrero, Juan Perez, “Joan Thorne inaugura su exposicion en Casa de Bastidas,” Listin Diario ,January 30, Santo Domingo, Dom., Rep
1996 Campos, Niza "Encuentro" de Lienzos y Colores. Hoy, August 10. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Campos, Niza "Siete jovenes exponen en Casa de Bastidas". Listin Diario August 24. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Exposition Plastica en Casas Reales". El Listin", August 14, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Lora, Elvira "Siete Artistas Plasticos en un pictorico "Encuentro". El Siglo, August 16, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Goris Virginia "Encuentro" "Reune grandes obras de sietartistas.Ultima Hora, August 25, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1993 Arache, Patricia. Los Artistas Residentes, El Siglo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 21 August
1991 Dumas, Ann. "Joan Thorne." Arts Magazine, January
1989 Clarke, Orville O. "Joan Thorne." ArtScene, May.
Geer, Suvian. "Joan Thorne." Los Angeles Times, 5 May.
1988 Malon, Lenore. "Joan Thorne." Artnews,October, p. 184.
1986 Cox, Meg. "Private Foundations Seek to Assist Artists Based on Financial Need--As Well as Merit." The Wall Street Journal,7 July.
Smith, Nancy. "Thorne Exhibition Assaults the Senses."
The News and Courier, Charleston, S.C., 27 April.
Cohen, Ronny H. "Drawing Now in N.Y.C.: The Pictorial Image of the 1980's." Drawing Magazine.
Gardner, Colin. "The Art Galleries." Los Angeles Times, 11 April, p.VI 18.
Laurence, Michael. "Joan Thorne." The West Hollywood Paper, 24 April.
McDonald, Robert. "Enigmatic Abstractions." Artweek, 26 April.
Rose, Barbara. American Painting 20th Century. New York: Rizzoli International Corp.
1985 Westfall, Stephen. "Dance Electric." Art in America, December, p. 98-101.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Joan Thorne." Arts Magazine, October.
Glueck, Grace. "Joan Thorne." The New York Times, 26 July.
Raynor, Vivien. "Joan Thorne." The New York Times, 14 June.
Russell, John. "Painting 1985." The New York Times, 1 February.
Brenson, Michael. "Luxe Calme Et Volupte." The New York Times, 8 January 1985.
Smith, Edward Lucie. American Art Now. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
1984 Harrison, Helen. "A Show to Challenge Our Perceptions." The New York Times,3 June.
1983 Van Siclen, Bill. "Season's Paintings." The New Paper, 21 December.
Gray, Channing. "Bold Works by First Rate Artists Typify New Direction in American Painting." Providence Journal, 11 December.
Artner, Alan G. "Joan Thorne, Lynda Benglis." Chicago Tribune,25 November.
Yau, John. "Joan Thorne's Visionary Universe." Arts, September.
Cohen, Ronny. "Joan Thorne." Artnews, January. Westfall, Stephen. "Joan Thorne." Arts,January.
1982 Bannon, Anthony. "Seven Thorne Drawings are Plenty for a Show." Buffalo Evening News, 10 November, p. B10. Parks, Christa Lancaster. "Joan Throne." Arts, October.
1981 Trucco, Terry. "Sensations of the Year." Portfolio, September-October.
Whitney Museum of American Art, "1981 Biennial Exhibition." Exhibition catalog.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "The Hallelujah Trail." The Village Voice, 24 March.
Zaya. "Llamenaslo Pluralismo." Guadalimar, March-April. Smith, Roberta. "Biennial Blues." Art in America,April.
1980 Douglas, Michael. "Wealth of Image Dots Modern Show." Memphis Press-Scimitar, 4 December.
Bouissit, Maiten. "Peinture: le nouveau debarquement des Americains." Le Matin de Paris, 19 May.
Artner, Alan G. "Art: Joan Thorne." Chicago Tribune, 23 November.
Walker, James Faure. "Babylonian Oasis." Artscribe, April, pp. 16-23.
Wohlfert, Lee. "Young Artists New Yorkers are Talking About." Town & Country, September, pp. 199-207
Kramer, Hilton. "Seven Young Americans." The New York Times,18 April.
Zimmer, William. "Seven Young Americans." SoHo Weekly News,18 April
Larson, Kay. "Seven Young Americans." The Village Voice, 28 April.
O'Biel, Hedy. "The Invisible Women-I." Artspeak, 14 February.
Michael, Jacques. "Artists Americains Pour 1980." Le Monde, 23 April.
1979 Tennant, Donna. "Technique Preoccupies Painters in Lee Gallery Show." Houston Chronical, 12 October. Foster, Hal. "A Tournament of Roses." Artforum, November, p. 63-67.
Rickey, Carrie. "Joan Thorne." Artforum, September. Yau, John. "Joan Thorne at the Clocktower." Art in America, November.
Perreault, John. "Rose and the Thorns that Scratch." SoHo Weekly News,27 September, p. 59.
Frank, Peter. "Rates of Exchange." Village Voice, May.
Rose, Barbara. American Painting; The Eighties,Grey Art Gallery, New York. Exhibition catalog.
Kramer, Hilton. "Neo-Modernists-A Sense of Deja-Vu." The New York Times, 23 September, p. D 31.
1978 Institute of Contemporary Art, Eight Abstract Painters, Philadelphia. Exhibition catalog.
Ratcliff, Carter. Thick Paint,University of Chicago, Chicago. Exhibition catalog.
Weintraub, Linda. "Eight Abstract Painters." Arts Exchange,Philadelphia.
1974 Heinemann, Susan. "Joan Thorne", Artforum, December.
Frackman, Noel. "Joan Thorne." Arts, November.
1973 Baro, Gene. "Joan Thorne." Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington, D.C. Exhibition catalog.
1972 Picard, Lil. GEDOK American Women Artists Show, Hamburg Museum, Hamburg, West Germany. Exhibition catalog. Goldberg, Len.
Statement:
I have been painting in New York City since 1965 when I received a B.S. degree from New York University with a major in painting. In 1968 I received an M.A. degree from Hunter College, completing my thesis with Tony Smith which was a series of paintings.
In 1972 my work was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial Exhibition. In the following years, I had several solo exhibitions. In 1973 Gene Baro invited me to have a solo exhibition of paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1974 I had a solo exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. In 1977 my work was exhibited in a one person show at the Art Fair in Cologne, Germany.
I was invited to have a one-person show at The Clocktower in New York City in May 1979. This year I also received a National Endowment Grant. I was invited to join the Willard Gallery in New York City and in 1980 had a debut solo exhibition there. Barbara Rose included me in the exhibition American Painting: The 80s, at the Grey Art Gallery in New York University. This show was reviewed by Hilton Kramer for the Sunday Edition of the New York Times. My painting was reproduced in the review. Outside of New York, I also had a solo exhibition with the Dart Gallery in Chicago, and during the month of April I had paintings on exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris in a group exhibition organized by the Socie?te? des Artistes Inde?pendants.
In 1981 one of my works was included in another edition of the Whitney Museum’s Biennial Exhibition at. During the month of February, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Gallery exhibited my pastel drawings and a large painting, Kabba. I was also commissioned by the Lincoln Center Vera List Fund to create a poster. In October 1982, I had a one-person exhibition of paintings at the Willard Gallery in New York City. This year I had a drawing show at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
In 1983 I had a solo show at the Dart Gallery in Chicago. Shortly before, John, Yau a poet and art critic, wrote an article on my work that was published in Arts Magazine, September 1983. I received a National Endowment Grant in Painting. In 1984, my work was exhibited in a group show organized by Michael Walls, called Heroic-Poetic. My paintings were also shown in a group show curated by John Yau entitled Luxe Calme et Volupte, at 1 Penn Plaza, New York.
In May of 1985, I had a one-person exhibition at the Graham Modern Gallery in New York. Berta Walker, the director of the Gallery, arranged to make a catalog for my exhibition with four-color reproductions and a critical essay written by John Yau. Stephen Westfall wrote an article on my painting which was published in Art in America Magazine in December 1985
2
In 1986 I received the Prix de Rome Fellowship in Painting from the American Academy in Rome. For two years, I had a studio in Rome (1986-1988). This lead to an exhibition in 1988 at the Graham Modern Gallery in New York City, called The Rome Paintings – a curated show of the work I produced in Italy. Also in 1986 I received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting, and I had a one-person exhibition at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
During May 1989, I had another solo exhibition at the Ruth Bachofner. In the summer of 1989 the Brooklyn Museum acquired a painting of mine for their permanent collection. November through December 1990, I had a one-person exhibition at the Graham Modem Gallery in New York City. These paintings were influenced by my travels in Italy, Sicily and Tunisia during the time of the Prix de Rome Fellowship. The art historian Ann Dumas wrote a review of this exhibition published in Arts Magazine. I have included this review along with an announcement from the Graham Modern show in my application.
In 1993 I received a grant for painting from Altos De Chavo?n in the Dominican Republic. The grant was for three months during the Summer. I was included in the group exhibition Los Artistas.
In 1998 I had a retrospective exhibition of twenty-seven years of my work at Museo Voluntariado De Las Casas Reales, Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The exhibition was sponsored by the communications company Codetel, a subsidiary of GTE. Art In America published a review of the exhibition written by Richard Vine, a New York art critic, that same year in June. During the months of April and May of 1998 the retrospective exhibition traveled to Santiago and was shown at Museo Patronato Plaza de La Cultura Santiago Apostol. During this year R.B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla, California included my work in two group exhibitions. One was called Illuminated Under White Light. In February, March and April of 2000 I had a second retrospective exhibition of my painting at Museo de Las Americas in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. An eighteen-page catalogue in full color was made for the show with an essay by Stephen Westfall and one essay by Manuel Alvarez Lezama, an art critic from Puerto Rico.
In October 2000, my painting was included in a group exhibition at the Painting Center in New York City called Straight Painting. The essay for the brochure was written by Robert C. Morgan. In January of 2001 my work was also included in a group exhibition at Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at the Hofstra Museum, Long Island, New York. The catalogue for this show was written by Robert C. Morgan. He also wrote the essay in the
3
catalogue for my one-person exhibition at the Andre Zarre Gallery in Chelsea, New York. The show was reviewed by Edwardo Marceles in the Newspaper Hoy, in Spanish.
In January 2002, I received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in painting. In December 2003, I was invited to exhibit my work at the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy. During the biennial, the gallery Alessandro Bagnai in Florence, Italy showed my work in a group show. In January 2005, I had a solo exhibition at Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel California. My work was also included in the show entitled Contemporary Women Artists: New York at Indiana State University. In 2005 I also had a one-person exhibition at gallery Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contempora?neo, San Rafael de Escazu, Costa Rica.
In 2010 and 2013 I had two solo exhibitions at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn. There was a catalog made for each of these shows with essays by critics Robert C. Morgan and Stephen Westfall. A biographer Peter Falk also wrote an essay and used photos that Hans Namuth had taken of myself painting in the studio. These shows were reviewed in the New York Times, Art In America, Art News and The New Criterion. The essays and reviews are on my website: www.joanthorne.com.
In 2014 my paintings were exhibited in the Art Hamptons Fair by the Hollis Taggart Gallery. In 2015 the National Arts Club exhibited my work in the show called Outside the Lines/Modernist Drawings. In 2015 my pastels were shown as a one person show in the National Arts Club in New York City, called Black and White Into Color. In 2017 I had a one person show of my paintings at the Freddy Gallery in Harris, New York. For the past 10 years, Sideshow Gallery has included my work in their January Show.
I had a solo exhibition in the summer of 2019 at the Quogue Gallery in Quogue, NY, and the same year they featured my work in the Paper Fair in New York City. At present my painting is on exhibition at The National Arts Club in a group show titled "Women Out of Doors".
The American Academy of Arts And Letters has selected me to participate in the "Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts" opening March 3, 2020
In 2021 I had a 4 decade retrospective exhibition of my work at the Barry Art Museum in Norfolk VA. The museum created a 52-page catalog with essays by Richard Vine, the Managing Editor of Art In America and Vittorio Colaizzi, an Art Historian who recently published a book on Robert Ryman (Phaidon Press).
Further information can be seen on my resume included in this narrative. Grants and Fellowships
2006 Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant in Painting
2003 Prize in Painting, Florence Biennale lnternazionale, Florence, Italy
2001 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting
1986 Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting
1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
1980 New York State Council on the Arts, Grant for Painting
1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
1976 Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1975 New York State Council on the Arts, Grant for Painting
1974 Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1972 Artist of the Year, Aldrich Foundation
Residencies
1993 Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic 1991,'79,'76,'74 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1981 MacDowell Colony Inc., Peterborough, NH 1977,'78 Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
1977 Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY