Giordano Interviewed for Spotlight on the Arts

Spotlight on the Arts: Joan Giordano. Interview by Patrick Chistiano, publisher of TheatreLife.com . Directed by Barry Gordin. Produced by Patrick Christiano. Watch online at: http://theaterlife.com/joan-giordano-artist-july-9-2019/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utLUT-RDYMQ

2019

Giordano To Be Featured at The Art Show 2020

June Kelly Gallery will exclusively feature a solo exhibition by Joan Giordano
in their booth at The Art Show 2020, organized by
the Art Dealers Association of America.

February 27 - March , 2020
Gala Preview February 26, 2020

Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, New York

See https://artdealers.org/the-art-show/information
for tickets and more information.

Giordano Featured in January Issue of Wagner Alumni Magazine

Joan in her studio with three of her cast paper “Presences”.Photo by Deborah Feingold. — Joan in her studio with three of her cast paper “Presences”.
Photo by Deborah Feingold.

“Joan Baldassano Giordano ’60 is a visual artist who combines painting and sculpting, using media ranging from bamboo to wax. Since she finished her fine arts degree at Wagner in 1960, her work has been seen everywhere from the city of Atlanta to the country of Zambia.… Giordano was especially influenced by Tom Young, an abstract expressionist who taught art at Wagner from 1953 to 1970. … [and visiting artists] Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. … In September 1959, at the beginning of her senior year, Joan married fellow Wagner student Ben Giordano … .… Just a week after graduating, in June 1960, she gave birth to their first child, Jeffrey. She went on to study Asian art on a fellowship at Hunter College; have her second son, Glenn; and earn an MFA from … Pratt Institute.”

See full feature at: https://wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/joan-giordano-60-color-form-texture/

2018

Joan Giordano Invited by The Visual Voices Program At George Mason University School of Art

Delivered presentation & lecture to graduate students and faculty.

Title: One Woman’s life in Art In New York; October 18, 2018

For more information see https://soa.gmu.edu/visualvoices/

Giordano In Collection of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete

She (detail), 96”x25”x5”, 2018 — ***She*** *(detail)*, 96”x25”x5”, 2018

“She” and “Epoch Climb”, Two Mixed Media Works by Joan Giordano, are now part of the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete.

These works were featured in the exhibition “Paper Moon (Hartino to Feggaraki)

in summer of 2018.

Giordano Retrospective at Catskill Art Society

JOAN GIORDANO, Overview (1993-2018)

CAS The Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor New York

1 September-27 October, 2018

Giordano Featured in Paper Moon
(Hartino to Feggaraki)

Joan Giordano's Mixed Media Sculpture " SHE," 96”x25”x5”, 2018 — Joan Giordano's Mixed Media Sculpture " *SHE," 96”x25”x5”, 2018*

June 1 - September 15, 2018
Curated by:
Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos

The National Museum of CONTEMPORARY ART, CRETE
Community Enterprise of the Municipality of Rethymnon
32 Mesologhiou str., 74131, Rethymnon

Opening: Friday, 1 June 2018

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete
32 Mesologhiou str, Rethymno
Opening at 20:00

Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque
Arkadiou & V. Hugo Str.
Opening at 18:00

An exhibition catalogue in English will be available, as well as guided tours and educational programs.

The participating artists coming from Greece, the U.S.A. and Korea are the following: Eozen Agopian, Roya Amigh, Maria Anasazi, Lydia Venieri, Long-bin Chen, Angiola Churchill, Joan Giordano, Yorgos Giotsas, Chistopher Doulgeris, Katerina Zacharopoulou, Ho Han, Ran Hwang, Tina Karageorgi, Maria Karametou, Marigo Kassi, Eirini Linardaki, Despo Magoni, Renee Magnati, Lu Mei, Eleni Mylonas, Bill Pangburn, Vincent Parisot, Gahae Park, Lila Polenaki, Yun Ku Sang, Hoyoon Shin, Insoo Shin, Xin Song, Konstantinos Stamatiou, Mary Ting, and the Hanji paper design group: Jinei Cho, Young Joo Im, Keumsuk Park, Seonae Kim, Booduck Lee, Jaesu Um, Yang Bae Jun.

Joan Giordano will be leading a workshop : Splashing Around With Paper. An opportunity to explore the history of paper-making and to understand it’s properties. Learn how it’s made, and how you can use it to create. This is a hands-on workshop to experiment with and to create dimensional paper. Joan Giordano is an experienced papermaker and a pioneer in the Papermaking movement in New York.

For more information see http\\:www.cca.gr and http://www.cca.gr/press-release/articles/paper-moon-exhibition.html

Giordano in Group Exhibition Green Habitat

at President's Gallery, John Jay College

April 25th - June 30th, 2018

Joan Giordano, White Birch Deforestation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice will host the exhibition "Green Habitat", a group show to include works of artists from around the world on the theme of sustainable or ecology-based art.

Thalia Vrachopoulos, the exhibition's curator, describes it with these poetic words:

"Joan Giordano, in her Deforestation Birch Forest sculpture, also addresses the field of sustainable art. Her wall sculpture with its wing-like span reaches out to us, much in the same way a mother would embrace her child, a very apt analogy of nature as nurturer. The work is created out of the cast off reddish-brown bark of young birch trees."

Exhibition Catalogue available.

To learn more about this exhibition, visit http://shivagallery.org/portfolio/green-habitat/

2017

Giordano Sculpture Featured in Group Exhibition
"The Language of Hands"

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at WESTWOOD Gallery, NYC

Giordano received a New York State Council on the Arts grant to caste the farmers hands working in the Catskill Mts.

"because Farmers like Artists create with their hands."

On loan from the Henry Buhl Collection, NYC

Giordano in Group Exhibition at C Fine Arts

OUT OF BOUNDS, 2017

at C Fine Arts

Out of Bounds is the new exhibition presented by C FINE ARTS at the The White Room Gallery Bridgehampton, NY.
The show presents the work of 8 contemporary artists, featuring photography, painting, mixed media and sculptures with each artist pushing the boundaries in their own unique way. Tombstones are brought to life, metals twist into provocative images, marble and glass take on appealing shapes, images bleed together and the sky becomes a voyeur.

Art is exhibited inside the gallery and outside in the garden.

works by:
Joan Giordano
Ann Brandeis
Kat O'Neill
Lauren Robinson
Kevin Barrett
Norman Mooney
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen
Isobel Folb Sokolov

July 15th, 6 -8pm
2415 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
accompanied by a lively duo of guitar and sax performing up-tempo and world music from Cuba, Paris, St Barths and Brazil.

A review by Sandra Tyler editor of Woven Tail Press can be seen here:
http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2017/07/21/exhibition-review-bounds/

Giordano Solo Exhibition Reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, March 2017

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Thalia Vrachopoulos reviewed Joan Giordano's exhibition "Woven in Time", hosted at the June Kelly gallery, NYC.

"Joan Giordano's recent exhibition "Woven in Time" spoke to both the history of art and postmodern phenomena. Her constructions, which straddle the boundaries of painting, college and sculpture, can be compared to Kurt Schwitters's Merz assemblages [...]"

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