ABOUT
I returned to painting several years ago after a successful career as an architect; learning and growing in my approach and my technique, I never know exactly where a painting will end up until it is done. At around the same time I moved to Reno, NV, and the western landscape figures large in my work. I start with the wish to get the same response in a viewer as my own sense of wonder from whatever I am looking at.
I spent many of my teenage weekends museum and gallery hopping in NYC and elsewhere; I couldn’t get enough of the energy and excitement of those experiences. I still get a thrill from seeing work that makes me think or dream.
My own work is heavily influenced by my background; all the same ingredients go into both architecture and painting; perspective, color, form, materiality, and light. When they are most effective, both require a unique and fresh eye that then evokes an emotional response from the viewer, including myself. It is my hope that I am sometimes successful in this.
If you are interested in her work as an architect and in the social responsibility space…
She is a design principal and former Global Design Director at Perkins+Will, where her architectural work spans the corporate, higher education and institutional sectors, for clients in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. She has also been a strong voice for gender equality in the construction industry and for using design as a lever for improving public health and wellbeing. She was President of the NY Chapter of the AIA, is one of only a handful of individuals to be a fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and she was recipient of the 2018 “Legend” Award for Contract Magazine, a prestigious lifetime award.
She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard Career Discovery, and Washington University.
She holds a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophical Psychology from the University of Chicago.
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Joan’s work is currently featured at the Reno Fine Arts Collective (RFAC):