The Artist

Joan Giordano has enjoyed nearly twenty solo shows and has taken part in countless group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has been awarded fellowships at the Awagami Factory in Japan, at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. Giordano is one of the founders of the Art Lab at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island and has taught painting and printmaking at Laguardia College, Union College and the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. Giordano's work is featured in the international World of Paper, show by the Museum of Papermaking appearing at the Museo Nationale Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile and continuing to Tokyo, Japan. Her work selected by Lloyd Herman founding Director of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery is featured in Pulp Function at the Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA as well as with another venue EXHIBITS USA for a three year national museum tour.

Just a few of the many collections of which her work is part of are the Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, The New York Public Library print Collection, NY and many United States Embassies around th work including those of Cyprus, Vienna, Turkey, and Zambia. From the Earth/Farmers Hands purchased by the Buhl Collection is in the annual Buhl calendar datebook 2009. She was invited to the White House for breakfast with the first lady, for her work in the Art in Embassies Program. Giordano's work is part of a continuing series that relate to the energies of nature and a deeply felt affinity for the delicate balance between the fragility of the human condition and the power of humanity. Giordano fuses disparate elements such as metal, paper, wire, cable, wood, wax and other materials that work together in dialogue. In combining these various objects both man-made and natural, she reference states of transformation between nature and urban life. She fashions sculptural installations whose technique she perfected while at a residency at YADDO. Hew work process often requires burning, stitching, melting, cutting and welding. She lives and works in New York City and Upstate New York.

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