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Critical Overview
"...luminosity and emotional juiciness."
—Cate McQuaid,
The Boston Globe,
September 14, 2006
"Minimalist artists used the
grid to downplay the
sensuality of color and
brushstrokes. The
austerity helped focus the
viewer’s attention on
pigment as pigment, line as
line—a primary concern of
60’s minimalism. Joanne
Mattera has a different
agenda. She uses grids the
way classical poets used
rigorous rhyme schemes: to
impose elegant order
onto an otherwise messy
outpouring of emotion."
—Staff review, The Week,
April 18, 2003
"One of the nation’s premier
encaustic specialists."
—John Carlos Villani,
The Arizona Republic,
Nov. 18, 2001
"Despite the complex formal
relations present in these
works, the overall tone is
intuitive rather than cerebral
and defines Mattera as a
particularly adept
representative of poetic
intelligence."
—Jerry Cullum,
Art in America,
March, 2000
| Recent Solo Exhibitions |
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| Pure Color Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta April 20 – May 27, 2006 |
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| Heat of the Moment Arden Gallery, Boston September 1–30, 2006 |
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| Joanne Mattera: Ten Years of Encaustic Painting Winfisky Gallery Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts March–April, 2006 |