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Joanna Pousette-Dart

Born in New York to abstract expressionist painter and founding member of the New York School of painting, Richard Pousette-Dart, and having studied painting at Bennington College in Vermont amongst the likes of Greenbergian Formalists Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, Joanna Pousette-Dart’s experience as a painter rises from rich tradition. However, despite this traditional modernist background, her paintings remain anything but conventional. Pousette-Dart’s shaped paintings are unique in their melding of formal and poetic concerns, and take their inspiration from many sources: Islamic, Mozarabic and Catalonian art, Chinese landscape paintings and calligraphy, Mayan and American Indian art, as well as the landscape itself, to name a few. In the early 1970s, Pousette-Dart began living and working intermittently in New Mexico. Her perceptions of the place deeply influenced her paintings, ultimately resulting in the abandonment of a rectangular format in the 1990s for works composed of curved panels. The dynamic configurations of these works evoke the constantly shifting light and form, the vastness of the spaces, and the sense of the earth’s curvature that she experienced there. Her paintings take many forms, each with its own dynamic sense of expansion and compression, buoyancy and gravity. The painted contours of the interior shapes create an added complexity, sometimes echoing the contours of the canvas, and at other times challenging them. Her use of color suffuses all elements with a sense of light which feels redolent of the natural world.

Joanna Pousette-Dart was born in New York, NY in 1947, where she still lives and works. She has a BA from Bennington College, Vermont (1968). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, USA; and Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY, USA, as well as a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York. Pousette-Dart has been featured in group exhibitions at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, among others. Her work is held in public collections around the world including Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA. In 2021 she was selected to become a National Academician by The National Academy of Design in New York.

Upcoming Projects

Joanna Pousette-Dart: Centering, Lisson Gallery, New York, (5 September – October 2024)

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2023
Acrylic on wood panels
191.5 x 251.5 x 5.1 cm
75 3/8 x 99 x 2 in

3 Part Variation #12

Joanna Pousette-Dart
3 Part Variation #12

2017
Acrylic on canvas on shaped wood panels
Installed: 168.9 x 228.6 x 3.8 cm
Installed: 66 1/2 x 90 x 1 1/2 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic on wood panels
191.5 x 251.5 x 5.1 cm
75 3/8 x 99 x 2 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic on wood panel with laminated evolon
69.5 x 120.3 x 2.5 cm
27 3/8 x 47 3/8 x 1 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2023
Acrylic on wood panel
106.7 x 116.2 x 2.2 cm
42 x 45 3/4 x 7/8 in
 

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2023
Acrylic on wood panel
155.9 x 104.1 x 1.9 cm
61 3/8 x 41 x 3/4 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic on wood panel with laminated linen
88.9 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm
35 x 28 x 1 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic on wood panel with laminated linen
40.6 x 27.3 x 2.5 cm
16 x 10 3/4 x 1 in

Red Earth, Green, Blue,

Joanna Pousette-Dart
Red Earth, Green, Blue,

2017
Acrylic on wood
35.9 x 40.6 cm
14 1/8 x 16 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic wash and watercolor on paper
57 x 76 cm
22 1/2 x 29 7/8 in

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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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2022
Acrylic wash and watercolor on paper
56.5 x 67.3 cm
22 1/4 x 26 1/2 in

Exhibitions

  1. Joanna Pousette-Dart: Centering - current exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart: Centering

    5 September – 19 October 2024

  2. Selected Works in Seoul - past exhibition

    Selected Works in Seoul

    2 September – 10 September 2023

  3. Joanna Pousette-Dart: Nocturnes - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart: Nocturnes

    7 July – 24 July 2022

  4. Joanna Pousette-Dart: Small Paintings - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart: Small Paintings

    7 July – 27 August 2022

  5. Joanna Pousette-Dart - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart

    16 November 2021 – 22 January 2022

  6. Joanna Pousette-Dart: Etruscan Drawings - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart: Etruscan Drawings

    8 June – 11 July 2021

  7. Selected Works - past exhibition

    Selected Works

    16 February – 24 April 2021

  8. Horizon - past exhibition

    Horizon

    6 October – 31 October 2020

  9. Joanna Pousette-Dart - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart

    27 August – 31 August 2020

  10. Joanna Pousette-Dart - past exhibition

    Joanna Pousette-Dart

    29 February – 3 July 2020

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