Press

Vasari 21


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Arts Atlanta Full review here
View my walk-through of the exhibition

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"I was dazzled by the well-handled triangles of Joanne Mattera’s Chromatic Geometry 21 . . ."
--James Panero, Gallery Chronicle in the New Criterion, November 2014

Chromatic Geometry 21,  2014, encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches. Included in Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, for the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, October 2014-January 2015

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"Director Miles Manning at Elizabeth Harris has gathered five painters in a show this month that reveals how artists no longer serve that grave, near-religious mysticism that geometry brought to early modernism. These painters use geometry as a freeform language, applied in novel and expressive modes, effortlessly morphing the linear with the organic."
--Peter Malone, Profaning Geometry, Venerating UncertaintyHyperallergic, July 11, 2014

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Painter's Progress blog by Stephen B. MacInnis. Click here to read the full version on the original site

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Above: Swedish Blog, Omkonst, reviews my show, Chromatic Geometries, at Arden Gallery in September 2013. Click here to read on the original site, and here in Swedish

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"Mattera demonstrates tremendous mastery over her materials and a seductive approach to color, while introducing some quirky compositional strategies. Although she usually discusses her work in terms of formal exploration, the timeless fascination of the figure-ground reversal that points to our shifting notions of meaning and perception is compelling on a metaphorical level as well." 
--Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, September 8, 2013

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Artscope, September/October 2013, by Elizabeth Michelman
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"'Coming up for Air' is a testament to the command that she has for her medium. Using a coarsely bristled brush and applying very straight bands of color that waver between precisely taped edges and carefully painted ones sans the tape, Mattera creates a hypnotic blend of visuals that is at once uplifting and calming. I also love the witty title that to me, references . . .the transitions of color one might experience while snorkeling in a pristine coral sea."
--D. Dominick Lombardi, 'Rolling in the Deep' at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in The Huffington Post, July 2, 1012


Coming up for Air, 2012, encaustic on panel, 24 x 60 inches

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Textility at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, by Patricia Malarcher for Surface Design Journal, Fall 2012
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Get Lost! Victims and Victors of the Art Fair Grid by David Cohen for Artcritical, December 2, 2011
"Stand-out exhibits at Aqua included . . .the funky abstractionist stable at Conrad Wilde allery of Tucson, amongst them the sensual encaustic monochromes of Joanne Mattera . . ."
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