Joan Thorne

Miracle 59x49in 2024 Oil Paint

"An Odyssey of Color"
Solo Exhibition

Opening reception: March 21, 2024 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM

March 20 - April 18, 2024
David Richard Gallery, LLC
508 West 26th Street, Suite 9E
New York, NY 10001
P: (212) 882-1705
www.davidrichardgallery.com

Press Release

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Madrogada, 36x45in, 1997

(re)FOCUS 2024 THEN AND NOW
THEN: 81 Artists Revisited after 50 Years
NOW: Re-examining the Feminist Art Movement through a New Lens
refocus2024.org/refocus-then-and-now

The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design
January 27 – March 16, 2024
Gala Reception: Friday, January 26, 2024

1916 Race St | Philadelphia, PA 19103
P: (215) 965-4027

"A 1974 feminist art show gets a citywide, multi-venue blockbuster sequel" Philadelphia Inquirer, February 8, 2024

Stypo 70x30in 1973 OPC

"From Abstract Expressionism . . .
. . . To Gestural and Post-Painterly Abstraction and Color Field Painting"


An Online Group Exhibition

Paintings by Artists:
Sonia Gechtoff
James Kelly
Nina Tryggvadottir
Alcopley
Howard Daum
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Nancy Genn
Joan Thorne
Beate Wheeler
Martha Szabo
Ronnie Landfield
George Hofmann
Willem de Looper

February 22 through April 11, 2024

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David Richard Gallery, LLC
508 West 26th Street, Suite 9E
New York, NY 10001
P: (212) 882-1705
www.davidrichardgallery.com

Oseah 64x67in 1981 OPC

It Happened In SoHo,
Paintings from Late 1960s through the 80s

THORNTON WILLIS
JOAN THORNE
DEAN FLEMING

June 13 - July 21, 2023

Opening reception: Saturday, June 17 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Chelsea, New York at 508 W 26 ST, Suite 9F

David Richard Gallery, LLC
508 West 26th Street, Suite 311 | New York, NY 10001
P: (212) 882-1705
www.davidrichardgallery.com

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Ranakapur 66x56in 2018 OPC

Retrospective Museum Exhibition
Light, Layers, Insight
Extended to January 3, 2021

Joan Thorne: Private Studio Visit

Virtual Tour of Retrospective

Barry Art Museum
1075 West 43rd Street
Norfolk, Virginia, 23529
Hours: (Monday Closed)
Tuesday - Friday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 12:00 Noon - 5:00 pm
Phone: 757 6836200
Free to the Public
52 page Catalog for Sale
(Notice in Art in America)
Press Release
Purchase Catalog

Click here to read the New Criterion Critic's Choice on Joan Thorne's Retrospective by James Panero

Interview with Joan Thorne by the Museum

Artist Lecture Video

Interview with Dr. Vittorio (Vic) Colaizzi in Barry Bytes E-newsletter

"Ms. Thorne's new, exuberantly brushy, fruit- and candy-colored canvases fit right in with the permissive pluralism of painting today."
"Optically captivating, the work conveys a state of visceral and cosmic ecstasy. "
--Ken Johnson, New York Times Review, November 26, 2010

"However passionate and fruitful her commitment to . . . modernism’s spiritual ambitions, the paintings themselves, in their structures and imagery, betray an astute and thoroughly interiorized comprehension of the challenges abstract painting has faced from midcentury to the present."
--Vittorio Colaizzi, Associate Professor of Art History at ODU, "Joan Thorne: Analytic Ecstasy" Woman’s Art Journal vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 37-45.

"The sheer quantity of color and energy could be exhausting, but never boring in such expansive canvases."
"Viewers couldn't help feeling overpowered by the movement inherent in piecing together the drama of the images."
--Ali Pechman, ArtNews Review, January 2014

"Abstract painter Joan Thorne consistently takes the risk of embracing pure expression."
"Her bright palette and sharp boundaries are musical, with large grounding masses and radiating waves swirling above them, like sound made visible in an aquarium."
"On the whole, Thorne's colors seem to produce their own light, and each layer is independent."
"This center area holds the four, distinct layers that epitomize the strongest appeal of these works: depth without illusionism."
-- Douglas Manson, Art In America, Review, April 2011

"Since 1973, while myriad styles, movements and mediums have flourished briefly in turn, Joan Thorne has steadfastly developed one visual language-that of painterly surface, light, color and distilled form-which she finds best suited for her artistic project: intimating dreams. intuitions and the psychic consequences of travel. "
"For there is something luxuriant and mysterious in Thorne's compositions. They have a classic modernist genealogy that encompasses Dove, O'Keeffe, Hartley, Avery and Tobey; yet each carries a hint of exoticism, "
--Richard Vine, Art In America, Review, June 1998

Khajaraho Sun_59x50in_2014_OPC

EGA

Conversation with Artist Joan Thorne

To view this Recent Conversation on YouTube Featured in American Painting: The Eighties Revisited please click on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-flMClpmY Joan Thorne will be talking with Guest Curator Kate Bonansinga about her art at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Bagan 69x65in 2018 OPC

Invitational Exhibition of the Visual Arts
The American Academy of Arts and Letters
March 5 - April 5, 2020

633 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032
(Enter on Audubon Terrace between 155 and 156 Streets on the west side of Broadway and walk to the end of the terrace.)

Phone: 212-368-5900
Hours: Thursday to Sunday 1:00-4:00pm
www.artsandletters.org


Video Interview at the Sideshow Gallery from CUNY BMCC


Artnews Review (PDF)
for Joan's exhibition at the
Sideshow Gallery in New York City, 2013

New Criterion Review (PDF)
for Joan's exhibition at
Sideshow Gallery in New York City, 2013

Art in America Review (PDF)
for Joan's exhibition at
Sideshow Gallery in New York City, 2011

New York Times Review [NYT Site] [PDF]
for Joan's exhibition at the
Sideshow Gallery in New York City,
Nov 19th - Dec 20th, 2010.

2024 Online Catalog
2013 Catalog (1.1 Mb PDF)
2010 Catalog (2.0 Mb PDF)