An eclectic and bracing bit of painting
is shown by Joanne Greenbaum with her small works exhibition, ‘1612’ currently at
D’Amelio Terras. A mid-career artist with a track record of making spatially
challenging images with roots in both architecture and automatism, her 16 x 12 inch paintings display an increase of frenetic energy from her larger images. Doodles
made in mixed media scatter, splash and jostle across limited pictorial real
estate. Hung in salon style arrangement, with some corners touching, the
display mirrors the scattershot, heterogeneous quality of the paintings
themselves. Given the size and freshness of the images, ‘1612’ acts as a
glimpse into the studio methods of this artist. Notational in quality,
Greenbaum’s small paintings—bright and piquant—hold their own against paintings
purporting grander gravitas.
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| Joanne Greenbaum Untitles 2011 16 x 12 inches |
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| Joanne Greenbaum Untitles 2011 16 x 12 inches |
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| Joanne Greenbaum Untitles 2011 16 x 12 inches |
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| Joanne Greenbaum Untitles 2011 16 x 12 inches |
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