Image Source: SAATCHI ARTJOAN THORNE
b. 1943
"I consider myself a metaphysical abstractionist making images which come out of my life experience. The images in my paintings are not only drawn from visual inspiration, but from memory, dreams, travel, nature and reverie as well as the intuitive process of painting.
I am interested in connecting the poetic image with the painted and in the metaphysical content of the painting. Color and Light are of foremost importance in my work." - Joan Thorne
JOAN THORNE BIOGRAPHY
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“I am a New York-based artist whose work is nationally and internationally recognized. My work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, throughout the United States, in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. I have had four museum retrospective exhibitions.
Over the years my shows in New York City have been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews and The New Criterion among others.
My painting has been included in two Whitney Museum Biennials and various other museum group exhibitions both in the United States, Europe, Caribbean and Latin America.
I have had numerous one person shows in galleries such as: Sideshow Gallery New York, Fishbach Gallery, New York City, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Willard Gallery, New York, Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, The Clocktower, New York City, and the National Arts Club among others.
In 2024 I will be having a one person survey of my painting at the David Richard Gallery in Chelsea, NY.
I have been awarded many grants in painting: The Prix de Rome Fellowship to paint at the American Academy in Rome, Gottlieb Grant, NY State Council On The Arts, National Endowment grants for painting and two Pollock Krasner Grants among others.” Joan Thorne
Source: joanthorne.com