Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 25 Years Together Arden Gallery, Boston
2024 Vico Arden Gallery, Boston
2022 Tutto Arden Gallery, Boston
2022 Looking Sharp Miller White Fine Arts, Cape Cod, Mass.
2020 Joanne Mattera: Silk Road Arden Gallery, Boston
2020 Hue & Me Addington Gallery, Chicago
2019 From Dawn to Dusk ODETTA Gallery, New York City, Chelsea
2018 Fifty/Fifty Arden Gallery, Boston
2018 Coming Full Circle Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago
2016 I Always Return to Hue Arden Gallery, Boston
2015 The Silk Road Paintings Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
2014 Chromatic Reasoning Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson
2013 Chromatic Geometries Arden Gallery,
2012 Soie Structural Madness, New York City (Curator: Gloria Klein)
2011 Diamond Life Marcia Wood Gallery,
2010 Travel with Me
2008 Contemplating the Horizontal Arden Gallery, Boston
(Curators: Leonie Bradbury and Shana Dumont)
2007 Silk Road OK
2007 It’s Always About
2006 Heat of the Moment: New Paintings in Encaustic Arden Gallery,
2006 Pure Color Marcia Wood Gallery,
2006 10 Years of Encaustic Painting Winfisky Gallery,
2004 New Paintings Arden Gallery,
2004 New Paintings
2004 New Paintings Marcia Wood Gallery,
2003 New Paintings Arden Gallery,
2003 Mudra: New Paintings Cervini Haas Gallery,
2002 Uttar: New Paintings Simon
2001 New Paintings Cervini Haas Gallery,
2000 Verso: Thought, Breath, Memory Espace Gallery,
1999 New Paintings Marcia Wood Gallery,
1996 Linear Perspectives OK
1995 New Paintings Stephen Haller Gallery,
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Japanese Abstract Art Kyoto City International Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Artists 2024 Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Color Shift Addington Gallery, Chicago
Three Visions: Christine Aaron, Joanne Mattera, Cherie Mittenthal Radiance Art Gallery,
Provincetown, Mass.
Among Friends 4 Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn (Organizers: Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant)
2023
US & Me Kenise Barnes Fine Art popup in Portland, Maine
Conversations in Paper and Paint Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
The Exquisite Corpse The Art Section, online project (Curator: Deanna Sirlin)
On Balance Art Cake, Brooklyn (Curator: Mary Birmingham)
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Exhibition traveling via International Arts and Artists to Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (Curator: Rebecca DiGiovanna)
Tactile|Textile Space Gallery, Denver
2022
Radical Chrome Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut
A Gathering: Art from the Roster Miller White Fine Arts, Dennis, Mass.
Pique: New Works by Gallery Artists Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Exhibition traveling via International Arts and Artists to LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge (Curator: Rebecca DiGiovanna)
Castle Hill Celebrates 50 Years Hans Hoffman Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Mass.
Among Friends 3 Equity Gallery, New York City (Organizers: Alexandra Rutsch. Brock, Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant)
Colorful Language Addington Gallery, Chicago
Cool and Collected ’22 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut
2021
Magic Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn
The Exquisite Corpse The Art Section, online (Curator: Deanna Sirlin)
Art for Your Collection Catherine Fosnot Gallery, New London, Connecticut
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Exhibition traveling via International Arts and Artists to South Bend Museum of Art, Indiana (Curator: Rebecca DiGiovanna)
Stripes—the whole idea American Abstract Artists online (Curator: Edith Newhall)
Stone Soup Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2020
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Exhibition traveling via International Arts and Artists to South Bend Museum of Art, Indiana (Curator: Rebecca DiGiovanna)
Digital: American Abstract Artists Prints 2012-2019 Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; traveling to
Visual and Performing Arts Center, Western Connecticut State University
Terra Chroma Addington Gallery, Chicago
2019
Polychrome Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
Turner’s Patent Yellow ODETTA Gallery, New York City, Harlem
Chromaticity Addington Gallery, Chicago
Digital: AAA Prints, 2012-2019: Prints by American Abstract Artists Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; traveling to Visual and Performing Arts Center, Western Connecticut State University; and Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York
Momentum Space Gallery, Denver
Thrive Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut
Continuity to Change: Recent History of American Abstraction Tower Fine Arts Gallery, State
University of New York, Brockport (Curator: Tim Massey)
A Short Survey of Contemporary Abstraction Bergen County Performance Center, Englewood, New Jersey (Curator: James Austin Murray)
Among Friends/Entre Amigos Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City
(Organizers: Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant)
Boston International Fine Art Show Invited by Miller White Fine Arts, Cape Cod
2018
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Kentucky; and Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Crazy Beautiful III Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Surface and Structure Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Mass. (Curator: Carol Pelletier)
Best Practices Miller White Fine Art, Dennis Mass.
Keeping it 100 On Center Gallery, Provincetown (Curator: Winston Lee Mascarenhas)
The Blues Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown (Organizer: Marian Peck)
New York Art Lab Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan (Organizer: Shuhei Yamatani)
Black Box Boecker Contemporary, Saarlandisches Kunstler Haus, Saarbrucken, Germany
The Exquisite Palette Tacit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (Organizers: Louise Blyton and David Coles)
Art Wynwood Invited by Analog Projects, New York City
2017
Domestic Disturbances 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn (Curator: Joanne Freeman)
Traces Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson
New Arrivals Cumberland Gallery, Nashville
Hybrid Form Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City
Chromatopia: A History of Color in Art Tacit Gallery, Melbourne (Curators: Louise Blyton, David Coles)
This One's for You! DM Contemporary, New York City
New York Art Lab Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan (Organizer: Shuhei Yamatani)
Black Box Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; traveling throughout Europe
Black Tie (Optional) Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) selected venues, including: Class Room, Coventry, England; Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia; Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan (Organizer: Jeffrey Cortland Jones)
2016
Best of 2016 Space Gallery, Denver
Chromatic Space Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York City (Curator: Jonathan Lippincott)
Indian Summer Show DM Contemporary, New York City
Fiction (With Only the Daylight Between Us) Front Street Building, Dayton, Ohio; Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, U.K.
The Onward of Art American Abstract Artists, 1285 Art Gallery, New York City (Curator: Karen Wilkin)
Visible Histories 80th Anniversary Exhibition of American Abstract Artists, Abrons Art Center and
Morris-Warren Gallery, New York City (Curator: Max Weintraub)
No. 10 Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown
10 Ways Dr. Julius Gallery, Berlin, and RCM Gallery, Paris (Curator: Lorenza Sannai)
Artists Select Cumberland Gallery, Nashville (Invited by Cheryl Goldsleger)
Art Market San Francisco Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery, San Francisco
Art Palm Beach Invited by Projects Gallery, Miami
Aqua Art Miami Invited by Projects Gallery, Miami
2015
August Geometry Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Endless, Entire Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn (Curator: Rachel Nackman)
Going Big Central Booking. New York City (Organizers: Suzan Shutan and Susan Carr)
Summer Show DM Contemporary, New York City
Sang-Froid Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Formal Aspects Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass. (Curator: Sarah Hinckley)
Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Surface and Structure Heftler Gallery, Manninen Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, Mass. (Curator: Carol Pelletier)
10 Ways Derbylius Libreria Galleria, Milan, Italy; Clement & Schneider, Bonn (Curator: Lorenza Sannai)
Territory of Abstraction Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Pattern: Geometric Organic Space Gallery, Denver
Selections from the Collection U.S. State Department, Harry S. Truman Building, Washington, D.C.
ArtMarket San Francisco Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery, San Francisco
Aqua Art Miami Invited by Projects Gallery, Miami
2014 Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey; traveling from Cape Cod Museum of Art
Doppler Shift Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit (Curator: Mary Birmingham)
Best of 2014 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
Summer Invitational Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York City
To Leo, A Tribute from American Abstract Artists Sideshow, Brooklyn
Summer Studio Salon Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Relative Geometries Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson
Spectrum A Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Market San Francisco Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery, San Francisco
Art Silicon Valley Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery, San Francisco
Aqua Art Miami Invited by Projects Gallery, Miami
2013
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts (Curator: Michael Giaquinto)
A Whiter Shade of Pale Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
Elephant in the Room Laconia Gallery, Boston (Curators:
Materiality Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York (Curator: Kenise Barnes)
Paperazzi Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn
Aqua Art Miami Invited by
Art Market San Francisco Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery, San Francisco
2012
Patterns, Systems, Structures: Abstraction in American Art Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
New Jersey; works from the collection (Curator: Gail Stavitsky)
Saturated Color Schweinfurth
Lush Geometry DM Contemporary,
Rolling in the Deep Kenise Barnes Fine Art,
Art Naples Invited by
Affordable Art Fair,
2011
Kindred Spirits Traina
Plane Speaking McKenzie Fine Art,
Drawing the Line #11 June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
2011
Sheer Color Conrad Wilde Gallery
Baby, It’s Cold Outside Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
Aqua Art Miami Invited by Conrad Wilde Gallery,
2010
Geometric Themes and Variations Gallery 128,
Pull: Print Portfolio Exhibition Marcia Wood Gallery,
July Salon June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Inspire Amy Simon Fine Art,
Oasis Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Director’s Choice Kenise Barnes Fine Art.
Love, Lust and Desire McGowan Fine Arts
Aqua Art Miami Invited by Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Art Hamptons Invited by DM Contemporary,
2009
Slippery When Wet Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn
Inaugural Preview DM Contemporary,
Summer Guest House Marcia Wood Gallery,
12x12 Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Stayin' Alive Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Obsessions Adler & Co. Gallery,
Geometrics II Gallery 128,
Castle Hill at the
Gallery Artists: Works on Paper June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Love, Lust and Desire McGowan Fine Art,
Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery,
2008
Material Color Hunterdon
No Chromophobia OK Harris,
Small Wonder Garson Baker Fine Art,
Relative Geometries Conrad Wilde Gallery,
This Just in Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Calculated Color Higgins Gallery,
A Breath of Fresh Air Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
Summer/Fall Group Show Adler and Co., San Francisco
2008 Fourth Anniversary Exhibition DM Contemporary, Mill Neck, New York
Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Adler and Co. Gallery,
2007
Punchbowl Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn
The Blogger Show Agni Gallery,
Gigantic Small Works Show Rosenfeld Gallery,
The Fusion Project June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Encaustic Invitational Conrad Wilde Gallery,
Red Dot Fair, Miami Beach Invited by Arden Gallery,
2006
Neo Plastic Redux Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York City (Curator: Miles Manning)
Gigantic Small Works Show Rosenfeld Gallery,
Nancy Manter, Joanne Mattera, Babe Shapiro DM Contemporary, Mill Neck,
A Thing of Beauty and A Joy Forever Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont
Minimal Minimal Works Gallery,
Luminous Depths Wm. Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey (Curator: Nancy Einreinhofer)
Order(ed) Siano Gallery,
Flow Art Fair, Miami Beach Invited by Kenise Barnes Fine Art,
Art (212) Contemporary Art Fair, New York Invited by Marcia Wood Gallery,
Los Angeles Art Show Invited by Cervini Haas Gallery,
2005
What Did Puck Say?
Engaging the Structural Broadway Gallery,
Cooled and Collected: Modern Masters of Encaustic Boon Gallery,
Color Theory
Wish You Were Here IV A.I.R. Gallery,
Wax: Encaustic Painting in Contemporary Art Brush Gallery,
Works on Paper Invitational Cervini Haas Gallery,
Wax Works McGowan Fine Arts,
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York Invited by Marcia Wood Gallery,
2004
Color Theory Kenise Barnes Fine Art,
Unbound: Selected Artists from ‘The Art of Encaustic Painting’ R&F Gallery, Kingston,
Four
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York Invited by Marcia Wood Gallery,
Serenity Cervini Haas Gallery,
2003
Encaustic Now II Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Tickled Pink Marcia Wood Gallery,
Wish You Were Here Too A.I.R. Gallery,
The Way of Wax Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University, Salem, Mass.
Art Miami Invited by Arden Gallery,
Art Santa Fe Invited by Cervini Haas Gallery,
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York Invited by Thatcher Projects, New York City
2002
Work on Paper Marcia Wood Gallery,
Lush Abstraction Melanee
Hot Wax Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College, New London
Artcetera Boston
Works on Paper Cervini Haas Gallery,
The Postcard Show A.I.R. Gallery,
Water Cervini Haas Gallery,
Enkaustikos: Wax as a Contemporary Medium Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Centering Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Generations III A.I.R. Gallery,
Art San Francisco Invited by Newzones Gallery,
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York Invited by Thatcher Projects,
2001
Encaustic Now Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Encaustic Works Arden Gallery,
The Art of Encaustic Painting Cervini Haas Gallery,
Encaustic: Joanne Mattera and Friends Melanee
Large-Scale Painting Cervini Haas Gallery,
Deck the Walls Newzones Gallery, Calgary
2000
Constant Aesthetic Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium A.I.R Gallery,
The Other Side and This Side: The Art of Italian and Italian-American Women
Pieces IV Gallery 128,
1999
Aesthetic Boundaries Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
Waxing Poetic Montclair
Knoxville, Tennessee (Curator:
Signs, Codes and Surfaces I and II Stephen Haller Gallery, New York City
Pieces III Gallery 128,
1998
Contemporary Wax Stephen Haller Gallery,
Small Works Washington Square East
Generations A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
Ron Ehrlich, Gregory Johnston, Joanne Mattera, Hiro Yokose Marcia Wood Gallery,
1997
Cultural Markers Stephen Haller Gallery,
1+1=3: Independent Artists, Collaborative Art
Material Girls: Gender, Process and Abstract Art Since 1970 Gallery 128, New York City
(Curator: Harmony Hammond)
Paper Project Sally Sprout Gallery,
Inaugural Show Christine Adapon Gallery,
1996 Cultural Markers Stephen Haller Gallery,
Small Works International Amos Eno Gallery,
1995 Small Works Stephen Haller Gallery,
Virtuosity Art Fair, The Armory, New York Invited by
1994 Waxing Minimal: Joanne Mattera, Inger Sand Lee, Tom Sime Denise Bibro Fine Art,
Signs, Codes & Alphabets Tribeca 148,
Small Works Washington Square East Gallery, New York City
1993 93 Wishes for '94 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery,
Small Works East West Cultural Center,
Works on Paper Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts (Curator: Andre Emmerich)
Curatorial and Organizational Projects
2024 A Legacy of Making: Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage Regis College, Weston Massachusetts (focus on artists from Massachusetts)
2024 A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage Connecticut College, New London
2023 A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists Calandra Institute, New York City (co-curator with Joseph Sciorra)
2021 Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience Ongoing online project with 70+ artist of Italian heritage
2019 Anything But Flat Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, Mass., in conjunction with the
13th International Encaustic Conference (juror)
2017 Depth Perception Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass.( co-curator with Cherie Mittenthal)
2016-07 International Encaustic Conference Founder and director, Provincetown, Mass
2015 A Few Conversations About Color DM Contemporary, New York City (curator)
2013 Cotton Fountain Street Fine Arts, Framingham, Mass. (juror)
2012 Improbable Topographies Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. (curator)
2012 Textility Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit (co-curator with Mary Birmingham)
2012 Encaustic Works 2012 Exhibition in print, R & F Gallery, Kingston, New York (juror)
2011 Surface Attraction Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. (co-curator with Marla Rice)
2011 New England Collective II Galatea Fine Art, Boston (juror)
2011 Conversations Gallery at R&F, Kingston, N.Y. (co-curator with Laura Moriarty)
2010 Wax Libris II Fourth International Encaustic Conference, Beverly, Mass. (curator)
2009 Wax Libris Third International Encaustic Conference, Beverly, Mass. (curator)
2009 Blogpix Platform Gallery, New York City (curator)
2007 Luxe, Calme et Volupté Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta (curator)
2007 Thinking in Wax Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, Mass. (juror)
2003 The Whole Ball of Wax Woman Made Gallery, Chicago (juror)
1993 Objects of Their Affection InterArt Center, New York City (curator)
1982 Artists on the Grid Svetlana Rockwell Gallery, Cambridge (curator)
Selected Honors
2018 2018 Honoree, National Association of Women Artists, New York City
2014 Elected member, American Abstract Artists
2012 Honoree, Castle Hill at National Arts Club,
2007 Ella Jackson Chair,
2005 Artist’s Resource Trust grant, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Massachusetts
Selected Collections
Museum and University
Connecticut College Museum,
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
University Libraries Collection, University of New York at Albany
University of Tennessee, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
U.S. State Department
Wheaton College Gallery,
Corporate and Institutional
Alston & Bird,
Bank of
Beacon Properties, Boston
Dana-Farber Institute, Boston
Delta Airlines, Boston
Eduardo Calma Architecture,
Evans Encaustics, Sonoma, California
Liberty Mutual, Washington, D.C.
Mark Williams Design,
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
Norwegian Cruise Lines, Miami
Pacific Peninsula Group,
PricewaterhouseCoopers,
R&F Paints,
Red Wheel/Weiser Books,
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas
Private collections: United States, Canada, Scandinavia, China, the Philippines
Selected Bibliography
Books
2023 Past/Present: American Abstract Members Honor Their Predecessors AAA Publications
2022 A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury Academic; Mark Staff Brandl
2018 Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color, Thames and Hudson; David Coles
2016 45 Years at OK Harris, Randem Publishing; Marilynn Karp and Ron Weis
2015 Experience Painting, Davis Publications; John Howell White
2015 Silk Road: Excerpts from an Ongoing Series, Well-Fed Artist Press, New York City
2014 Italian American Review, Vol. 4, Number 1; Calandra Institute, cover
2011 Against the Tide, Two Coats of Paint Press; Sharon Butler
2011 The Art of Reading Italian Americana, Bordighera Press; Fred Gardaphé; cover
2009 The Artists’ Guide: How to Make A Living Doing What You Love, DaCapo; Jackie Battenfield
2005 Abstract Painting, Watson Guptill;
2003 In Our Own Voices: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Italian and Italian American Women, Bordighera Press; Elizabeth G. Messina, ed.
2001 Spirit Maps, Red Wheel/Weiser; Joanna Arettam
2000 Lesbian Art in America, Rizzoli; Harmony Hammond
1998 Waxing Poetic, The Montclair Art Museum/Rutgers University Press; Gail Stavitsky, editor
Periodicals—Print and Online
2024 Artscope, “Cornered: Joanne Mattera,” Brian Goslow, January/February
2023 Two Coats of Paint, “An Italian American Colloquy with Joanne Mattera and John Avelluto,” Nov. 9
2023 La Repubblica, “Emigration and Integration: Two Exhibitions in New York Give voice to Italian American Art,” December 3
2022 The Art Section: An online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary, "Contemplating the Horizontal: A Conversation Between Joanne Mattera and Deanna SIrlin," Summer
2021 The Connecticut Examiner, "Fosnot Gallery Highlights 16 Critics' PIcks," Cate Hewitt, December 17
2019 The Art Section: An Online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary, "A Life n Art: A Dialogue with Joanne Mattera," Deanna Sirlin, November 4
2019 More Memorable Shows from 2019, Steven Alexander Journal
2019Two Coats of Paint, “Joanne Mattera Remembers,” Sharon Butler, June 18
2019 Gallery Travels, “Joanne Mattera,” Anne Russinof, November 11
2018 Boston Voyager, "Meet Joanne Mattera," August 20
2017 Provincetown Arts, "Joanne Mattera," Jan Lhormer, 2017 issue
2016 The New Criterion, "Gallery Chronicle," James Panero, March
2015 ArtsATL, "Math is Beautiful in Quirky 'August Geometry' at Marcia Wood," Jerry Cullum, August 26
2015 Bedford + Bowery, "When 111 Artists Find Each Other Through Facebook," Rob Scher, August 3
2015 Westword, "Artists Repeat Themselves in Pattern, an Elegant Group Show," Michael Paglia
2015 Artscope, "Formal Aspects at Cape Cod Museum of Art," Rhiannon Leigh, March 23
2014 The New Criterion, "Gallery Chronicle," James Panero, November
2014 Hyperallergic, "Profaning Geometry, Venerating Uncertainty," Peter Malone, July 11
2014 Painter's Progress, "Have You Met Joanne Mattera?" Stephen B. MacInnis, January 15
2013
2013 Two Coats of Paint, “
2013, Artscope, “
2013 Art
2013 Artscope, “Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic,” J. Fatima Martins; May-June
2012
2012 Huffington Post, “Rolling in the Deep at Kenise Barnes Fine Art,” D. Dominick Lombardi; July 2
2012
2012 Huffington Post, “Rolling in the Deep at Kenise Barnes Fine Art,” D. Dominick Lombardi; July 2
2011 Artcritical, “Get Lost! Victims and Victors of the Art Fair Grid,” David Cohen; December 2
2011 Boston Globe Magazine, "Keeping it Simple," Jaci Conry; November 13, 2011
Art Critical, “Artists Who Write Write for a Purpose,” George Hofmann; August 31
Art Critical, “Abstraction in a Cold Climate,” Franklin Einspruch; December
2010
2010 Art in the Studio, The Questionnaire: Joanne Mattera,” Nancy Natale, October 4
2010 Venetian Red, “Joanne Mattera’s Journey of Visual Pleasure,” Liz Hager (online)
2009 View List at Minus Space, "Bulletin Board: Inspiration Information," Karen Schifano
2009 Making the Art Seen, "Featured Painter: Joanne Mattera," interview by Sand T., July 2009
2009 Artist's Career Guide, "Reality Check: Interview with Joanne Mattera,” Jackie Battenfield
2009 Artscope, "Third Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting," Brian Goslow; May-June issue
2009 NYC Art, "GeoMetrics," Chris Rywalt; March 24 (online)
2009 Zocalo, "Per Square Foot at Conrad Wilde," Dolly Spaulding, December 10
2008
2008 Berkshire Fine Arts, “Boston’s Newbury Street Galleries,” Shawn Hill; December 27
2008 More Magazine, “Art Beat,”
2008 The Boston Phoenix, “Waxing Poetic,” Randi Hopkins; June 3
2008 Steven Alexander Journal, "Joanne Mattera," March 15
2007 Provincetown Banner, “When Art Runs Hot and Cold,” Melora B. North; August 23
2007
2007 Abstract Art On Line, "
2007 The
2007 Phoenix Home and Garden, “Color Blocks,” March
2007
2007
2006 Art New England, “Art Criticism on the Internet,” feature, Raymond A. Liddell; December/January 2007
2006
2006 The Art Blog, "Ordered," Libby Rosof; May 17
2006 Look, See, "Joanne Mattera's Encaustic Paintings," Chris Ashley; April 16
2005 Lowell Sun, “Whole Ball of Wax,” Barbara Rizza Mellin; November 12
2005 Art News, “How to Talk to An Artist,” feature, Gail Gregg; June
2005
2005 NY Arts, “On and Off the Grid: In Conversation with Joanne Mattera,” Julie Karabenick; February/March
2005 New York Times, “‘Unbound: Selected Artists,”’ D. Dominick Lombardi; Jan. 2
2004
2004 Traditional Home, "A Fresh Shade of Bungalow," cover storyu, Eliot Nusbaum, September
2004 Arts Media, “Artists Wax Enthusiastic,”
2003 Boston Sunday Globe, “Critics’ Picks,” Christine Temin; April 28
2003
2003 Arts Media, “Joanne Mattera: Paintings in Encaustic,” Shawn Hill; April-May
2003 The Week, “Joanne Mattera at Arden Gallery,
2003
2003 IONS Review, Barbara McNeill, ed., portfolio; Issue Issue 63, March
2003 IONS Review, Barbara McNeill, ed., portfolio; Issue 62, December
2002
2002 New York Times, “Hot Wax,” William Zimmer; November 10
2002
2002
2002
2002 Boston Sunday Globe, “The Process,” profile, Catherine Foster; March 3
2002 Art New England, "The Art of Encaustic Painting," book review, Susan Schwalb, Feb/March
2002 IONS Review, Barbara McNeill, ed., portfolio, Issue 62, December
2001 Arizona Republic, “Beauty of Encaustic Has its Price,” feature, John Carlos Villani; November 8
2001 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Waxing Eloquent,” Catherine Fox; October 12
2000 Manila Today, "Art Guide," review, June 6
2000 The Phillipine Star, "Gallery News," review, June 5
2000, Art in America, “Joanne Mattera at Marcia Wood,” Jerry Cullum; March
2000 Design and Architecture (
1999 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Mattera Infuses Modernist Grid with New Depth,” Jerry Cullum; July
1997
1997
1997 William and Mary Review, Erica Weitzman ed., portfolio; Vol. 35
1994 Artforum, “Objects of Their Affection at
Earlier
Driadi, “Du Blanc a la Couleur,” Michel Thomas; April 1981
American Craft, “Joanne Mattera,” portfolio; ” Spring 1980
Catalogs
2022 Tutto and Related Works New work at Arden Gallery, Kenise Barnes
Fine Art, and Marcia Wood Gallery
2022 Looking Sharp: A Retrospective of
Chromatic Geometries, Miller White Fine Arts, Dennis, Mass.
2020 Hue & Me Addington Gallery, Chicago; essay by Dan
Addington
2019 From Dawn to Dusk ODETTA Gallery, New York City; essay by Ellen
Hackl Fagan
2018 Blurring Boundaries: The Women of
American Abstract Artists, 1937-Present Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; essays by
Rebecca DiGiovanna, curator, and Alice Adams
2018 Fifty/Fifty Arden Gallery, Boston; essays by Carol
Pelletier and Zola Solamente
2018 Organic
to Geometric, second edition, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown,
Mass.
2017 Depth Perception Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass.
2015 Pattern: Geometric\Organic Space Gallery, Denver
2015 A Few Conversations About Color DM Contemporary, New York City
2015 Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface Endicott College, Beverly, Mass.
2014 Doppler Shift Visual Art Center of New Jersey; essays by
Mary Birmingham and Thomas Miccelli
2014 Swept Away second edition,
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
2013 Swept Away Cape Cod Museum of
Art. Dennis , Mass.
2013 Elephant in the Room Laconia Gallery, Boston
2011 Pull Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta; essay by Jerry Cullum
2010 The Art at Dana-Farber Center Boston, Mass.
2006 Joanne Mattera: Ten Years of Encaustic
Painting from the eponymous
exhibition, Salem State University, Salem,
Mass., March-April; essays by Flavia Rando and the artist
2006 Order(ed); essay by Roberta Fallon
2005 Geometry Reloaded Lilly Wei, from the ecxhibition, Engaging the Structural
2002 Uttar: Poetics of Materiality and Process Flavia Rando; from the exhibition, New
Paintings in Encaustic, Simon Gallery,
Morristown, N.J.
2013 Elephant in the Room Laconia Gallery, Boston
2011 Pull Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta; essay by Jerry Cullum
2010 The Art at Dana-Farber Center Boston, Mass.
Writing
Current Joanne Mattera Art Blog
2023 Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience, Well-Fed Artist Press, New York City
2019 Vita, A Memoir: Growing Up Italian, Coming Out, Making a Life in Art, Well-Fed Artist Press, New York City
2018 An Abiding Aesthetic, essay for Nobu Fukui solo, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City
2018 Constructs and Contradictions, revised catalog essay for Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Mass., curated by Carol Pelletier
2017 Digging Deep, curator’s essay for Depth Perception at Cape Cod Museum of Art
2016 Memory, Spirit and Gender: Existential Themes in Fiber and Wax, Surface Design Journal, Winter
2015 Constructs and Contradictions, catalog essay for Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface at Heftler Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, Mass., curated by Carol Pelletier
2014 The Art of Transformation (and Vice Versa), essay for Material Consequences, Gallery X, Truro, Mass.
Far From the Rolling Queue: The Lingering Virtues of Art Blogs, artcritical.com, September 24
2013 The
2013 Extravagant Light, essay for Swept Away, Cape Cod Museum of Art,
2013 Heady Abundance and Spare Elegance, essay for Natura Viva, ArtCurrent Gallery,
2013 The Writing on the Wall, essay for The Calligraphic Gesture, Tao Water Gallery, Provincetown, Mass.
2013 Making Room, essay for Making Room in New Haven, curated by Suzan Shutan
2012 Material Means: Diverse Practices, Common Threads, curator's essay for Textility, Visual Art
2012 Everything into the Pool, juror's essay for Encaustic Works '12, exhibition in book form,
Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York
2011 Sheila Hicks: Fifty Years, review; Surface Design Journal, Summer issue
2011 Affinities: Fiber and Wax, feature; Surface Design Journal, Winter issue
2010 A Thread Runs Through It, foreword for Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, by Daniella Woolf
2007 Luxe, Calme et Volupté: A Meditation on Visual Pleasure, curator’s essay, Marcia Wood, Atlanta
2007 Exquisite Dualities: The Recent Paintings of Alexandre Masino, essay for the
2007 Material Witness, feature; Surface Design Journal, Fall issue
2006 Encaustic: The ‘New’ Art Medium, Just 2000 Years Old, essay for Luminous Depths catalog and eponymous exhibition, curated by Nancy Einreinhofer,
2006 Dancing Shards: Between Order and Intuition, essay for
2006 Kevin Frank: The World in a Still Life, essay for the New York painter
2005 Give and Take, essay for Seattle-based painter Betsy Eby
2001 The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, New York City
1981-83 Fiberarts, Editor in Chief
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
A Legacy of Making
A series of exhibitions with artists selected from the book, Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience
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A Legacy of Making: Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage, Part 1
2024, Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts (focus on New England artists)
A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage
2024, Connecticut College, New London
A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
2023-24, Calandra Institute, New York City (co-curated with Joseph Sciorra)
Italianità
Current, online: I invited 74 Italian American visual artists to talk about how their ethnicity informs their work. The stories are as compelling as the images
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2015, at DM Contemporary, New York City: This is what happened when seven colorists allowed their work to take part in a visual discourse
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Textility
2012, at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit: The institution's curator, Mary Birmingham, invited me to co-curate a show that looks at the work of artists who use conventional artmaking materials to evince textiles and those who use textile materials to create painting and sculpture