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Gallery Joe News

Joan Waltemath wins Creative Capital Grant.

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JOAN WALTEMATH

Born 1953, Nebraska
Lives and works in New York

Education

1993 Hunter College, CUNY, M.F.A
1976 R.I. School of Design, B.F.A
1971-3 University of Nebraska

Grants and Awards

2008
Bemis Foundation, NE
2007
Artists' Fellowship, Inc., NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters Fund, NY
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, NE
2006
The Edward Albee Foundation, NY
Change, Inc.
2005
Jentel Foundation, Sheridan, WY
2003
BRA Architecture Award City of Berlin Citation for St. Canisius
The Edward Albee Foundation, NY
1999
USIS Grant for Bruxelles Exhibition
1991
Graf Travel Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
1990
H.R. Eagleton Scholarship Award, Hunter College, NY
1984
Materials Grant, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
1983
Materials Grant, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
1982
Materials Grant, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
1977
Marshall Woods Lecture Fund, Brown University, Providence, RI
1976
Special Projects Grant, RI State Council on the Arts, Providence, RI

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Torso/Roots, Galerie von Bartha, Basel Switzerland
2006
Infinity: Notes on the Sublime with C. Wulffen, Galerie Niklas on Bartha, London
2005
Two & Three, Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
White Skins, White-Out Studio, Knokke-Heist, Belgium @proximus, Bonn, Germany
2002
The invisible web of Iktomie iyokipi, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Alternating Current, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2001
corporeal musings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2000
finis vacui, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
1998
The Drawing Room, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Resolute Void, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama
1996
Constellation, Petra Bungert Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Introductions, New Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994
Zwischenzeit, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Haptic Solids, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Cross References, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Pentagon Fetishes, Suzan Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY, & No se No, New York, NY
1984
Science is the Tree of Death, Shuttle Theatre, New York, NY
1983
Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
1977
space window, List Gallery, Brown University, RI

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
The Orpheus Selection, P.S. 1, NYC
Celia Eldridge, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Kendra Ferguson, James Kennedy, Gloria Ortiz- Hernandez, Joan Waltemath, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
Continuum, St. Peter's College, NJ
2006
Take off, Hebel 121, Basel Switzerland
Big, MONA, University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE
Gridlock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
The Drawing Room, East Hamptom, NY, Stephen Antonakos, Jameson Ellis, Christine Hiebert, Sharon Horvath, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Joan Waltemath
2005
Paint it in Black, Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Salon, Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA
Optical Simulations, Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2004
Small Ephiphanies, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA, Galerie Niklas von Bartha, London
Small Works, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2003
The Incredible Lightness of Being, curated by Phong Bui, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Rhythm of Structure, Firehouse 5 Gallery, New York, NY
Resonance, The Work Space, New York, NY
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum, U of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Thinking in Line, University Galleries, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL
In Time, Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, UK
2002
2 Step, CCNOA, Bruxelled, Belgium
Math Art – Art Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Drawings, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
Fifteen years of Painting, Stark Gallery, NYC
Immanance Hunter College, CUNY, NY
Patient Process, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
W.O.P., PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steven Vail Galleries, Des Moines, IA
2000
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
Deep Field Painting, Hunter College, NYC, Painting Abstraction, NY Studio School, NY
1999
Women and Geometric Abstraction, Pratt Institute, NY
Transparent Facade, Otis College of Art and Design, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Large-scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Zeichnung, Galerie M. Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, & other locations abroad
Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the 20th Century, Hunter College NY, NY
1996
Trois collections d’artistes, Musee de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Champions of Modernism, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle College, NY
1995
Badur, Hyde, Waltemath, M. Thatcher Projects at Condeso/Lawler Gallery
1994
Constructed in 2 and 3 Dimensions: 1921-1994, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1993
Painting as Paradigm, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Recent Acquisitions, Arthur Sackler Gallery, Harvard U. Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
1991
Drawing Invitational, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery
Drawing, Althea Viafora Gallery
Cruciform, Stark Gallery, NY
Information, Terrain Gallery, SF, CA
1989
Backroom Bronzes, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Real Paint, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
1987
Art Against Aids, Barbara Braathen Gallery, NY
Micro Show, Now Gallery, NY
1986
Verdichtung FORMT, Hafenklang, Hamburg, W.Germany, Suzan Cooper, NY
1984
Blomster til Veija, Veija Museum, Denmark
Broadway Windows, L.M.C C.
1982
Art of the State with Space Force Group, The Kitchen, NY
UFO Show, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Glass and Neon, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1977
Space Window, with Eve Vaterlaus, Brown University, Providence, RI

Bibliography

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Fallon, Roberta. Math Works, The A-List in the Philadelphia Weekly, November 21, 2001
Fife, Joe, review of “…this isn’t Kansas”, Art In America, March 2003
Frank, Peter. Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, Oct. 2-8, 1998 & Feb.1-7, 2002
Gaskell, Ivan. "Contemporary Art and the Department of Paintings and Sculpture," Harvard University Art Museums Review, pg. 3, Cambridge, MA, Spring 1993
Goodman, Wendy. "Space Shifters", NY Magazine, Feb. 5, 2007, pp 54-5
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Knight, Christopher. "Light and Space…," review LA Times, Sept. 16, 1999. Pp 52, 55, 56.
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McQuaid, Cate. "Galleries", The Boston Globe, July 8, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. "Paint it Black", The New York Sun, pg. 16, July 21, 2005
Naves, Mario. "Currently Hanging" The New York Observer, August 1, 2005
Pfeifer, Tadeus, "Rechteckig verschüsselt, Joan Waltemath bei von Bartha" BAZ, pg. 24, Feb. 1, 2007
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Temin, Christine. Drawing their own conclusions, The Boston Globe, Living/Arts, p F1, 4, Jan. 21, 1998
Weidel, Barbara. Letter from Berlin. Artnet.com, April 5, 1999
Westfall, Stephen. Review, Art in America, p 108, New York, NY, July 1992
Zimmer, William. Matters of Scale…The New York Times, Sunday March 8, 1998
Zschau, Mechthild. Review of…die Lebendigen und die Toten…, on Texte und Zeichen- Das Literaturjournal, NDR Channel, Germany, June 1, 1993

Lectures and Academic Appointments

2001-07
Assistant Professor Adjunct, I.S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, NY
2000-04
Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, NJ
2002-04
Instructor, School of Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2007
Visiting Artist, Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, OH, Art Critical.com review panel at The National Academy of Design, Visiting Critic, The New School, NY
2006
Visiting Artist, Bard University, NY
2005
Visiting Artist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Visiting Critic, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2003
"Slide-Slam", Art in General, New York
1999
Presentation of recent work; Cooper Union, University of Alabama
American Abstract Artists, NY, University of Weimer, Weimer, Germany
1998
Presentation of recent work; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
1997-00
Visiting Lecturer, I. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1996
Visiting Critic, Final Reviews, I. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union ,New York, NY
1994-5
Academic Advisor, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1995
Panelist, “The NEA Tapes/ European Influences Symposium”, The New York Kunsthalle, New York, NY
1993-00
Adjunct Faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1992
Presentation of OECD projects in collaboration with Robert Mahoney, NYU, New York
“Crash Course through the History of Art”, Hoosac School, Hoosic Falls, NY
1991
Participant in “The Image of Thinking”, Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Nürnberg, W. Germany

Published Work

Waltemath, Joan. Appearances, No. 11, p64, Fall 1984
Waltemath, Joan. "Babel, babble…" Gugenheim public, Venice, Italy, March 2000
Waltemath, Joan "The Bourdon Gauge", exhibition catalogue, published by The Fine Arts Society, London, UK, 2006
Waltemath, Joan. "Excerpts from a letter to a Friend," Splash, LUX Section, New York, NY, Feb. 1989
Waltemath, Joan. “Excerpts from a letter to a friend, May 18,1996” in Innerscapes, an Anthology of Artists
Writing, ed. Maurizio Pellegrin, Contemporanea, Trieste 1998, pg. 309-310.
Waltemath, Joan. "Dialogue," Blast, Vol.1, No.1, New York, NY, November 1991
Waltemath, Joan. "Site Sight Surface, Sediment Resonance Desire," After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Vol. II, pp40-51, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY
Waltemath, Joan. Statement in "The Question of Gender in Art," Tema Celeste, p59, Winter 1993
Waltemath, Joan. "Ralph Humphrey’s Intentional Time," in Ralph Humphrey, exhibition catalogue, Hunter College, New York, NY 1991
Waltemath, Joan If you want to enter the world of color, then leave language at the door, exhibition catalogue, Tilman, published by CCNOA, Bruxelles

Catalogues / Books

A Decade of Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums,Cambridge, MA, 2000
Art Against Aids, exhibition catalog, Amfar and Sotheby’s, New York, NY 1987
Art on Paper, exhibition catalog, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of N.C. at Greensb., 2000
Blast Art Benefit, exhibition catalog, X-Art Foundation, pg. 39, New York, NY 1991
Blomster til Veija, exhibition catalog, Veija Museum, Denmark, 1984
Champions of Modernism, exhibition catalog, pp. 17, 18, 22, Portico New York, Inc.,1996
Deep Field Painting, exhibition catalog, pp. Hunter College, CUNY, NY 1999
Die Kunst der Linie, Möglichkeiten des Graphischen, exhibition catalogue, pp. 128-9, Landesgalerie Oberösterreich am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. 1999
Immanance, exhibition catalog, Hunter College, CUNY, NY 2001
Ocean Earth, 1990 bis heute, hrsg. Peter Weibel, pp. V, VIII, 14, 34, 50, 51, 58, 182,186,215, 217, 237, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, 1994
Patient Process, exhibition catalog, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College,IA, 2001
Large Scale Drawings, exhbition catalog, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1998
Drawing is another kind of language…, exhibition catalog, pp 216-217, text by Pamela Lee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 1997
Meller-Marcovicz, Digne, …die Lebendigen und die Toten…, pp. 358 and back cover,Ritter Kagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1992
Space Window, exhibition catalog, Brown Univ. & RI School of Design, Providence, RI, 1977
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, exhibition catalog, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY,NY. 1990
Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalog, pp 30-31 Hunter College of the City of NY, NY 1997

Public Collections

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Muse de Beaux Arts, La chaux de Fonds, Switzerland
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Fondation Leschot, Bern, Switzerland
Hood Museum, Dartmouth, NH
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
Brunswick Corporation, IL
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Howco Investment Corporation, NJ
Progressive Corporation, OH
Sears Merchandise Inc., IL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, NC
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, IL
S. Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, AL

Artist Groups and Other Collaborative Work

2001-Present
Editor at Large, The Brooklyn Rail, archive of published articles and interviews at www.brooklynrail.org/archive
1999-00
Ethics Tv. ethicstv.com
1981-4
Unovis Film Group
1980-1
Space Force, OECD, Ocean Earth, Inc.