1. Joanna Pousette-Dart was born on 1947 and is an American abstract artist, based in New York City.
10 Facts About Joanna Pousette-Dart
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Joanna Pousette-Dart has exhibited internationally, at institutions including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Museum Wiesbaden, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart studied art at Bennington College, then heavily tilted toward the post-painterly, 1960s abstraction advocated by Clement Greenberg and faculty such as the Color field painters Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Larry Poons.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart held solo exhibitions at the Susan Caldwell Gallery in New York and Janus Gallery.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart has held teaching positions at Hunter College and New York Studio School, as well as guest artist positions at a variety of institutions including Yale University.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart's work has eluded any group aesthetic, geographic or other label, or particular set of theories.
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Barbara Rose describes Joanna Pousette-Dart's shaped canvasses as developing out of a "poetic sense and personal reaction to sensory experience," which renders them unique in their emphasis on movement and the creation of a panoramic spatial continuum; she and others distinguish this more intuitive, eccentric approach from the more programmatic strategies of other shaped-canvas proponents, such as Frank Stella.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart's mature shaped canvasses were first exhibited in New York in shows at Charles Cowles, MoMA PS1 and Moti Hasson.
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Joanna Pousette-Dart received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1981, a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1989, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 2017.
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In 1980s, Joanna Pousette-Dart was commissioned to design a mosaic wall for the Venice Beach home of Carol and Roy Doumani, designed by Robert Graham.