Westside, Los Angeles
Joanne Greenbaum
Things We Said Today
Otis Ben Maltz GalleryThings We Said Today follows New York-based artist Joanne Greenbaum's prodigious mark-making and uncanny color sensibility across media and surface over a ten year period, 2007-2017. Using a language of abstraction that toggles between chaos and order, Greenbaum takes on architecture with a suite of recent, oversized canvases, punctuated by a series of sculptural pen drawings, watercolors, painted ceramics, and artist sketchbooks. In total, the gestures and forms that migrate from one substrate to another speak to an expansive practice that distinguishes little between form, yet conveys everything of the intensity and immediacy of unspoken thoughts amid the chaos of our time. Things We Said Today is curated by Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator of the Tufts University Art Galleries. The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College presentation is organized by Kate McNamara, Interim Director of Galleries and Exhibitions. The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure produced by Tufts University Art Galleries with an essay by Kate McNamara.