Joan WINTER
Works
About the artist
Joan Winter was born in Ft. Worth, Texas. She studied art and architecture at Texas Tech University and then worked within architecture for 10 years, most notably working for the architectural firm coordinating on the Kimbell Art Museum where she met the architect Lou Kahn. His philosophy of elevating form beyond its materiality has had a lasting influence on her work. Winter completed her MFA at SMU Meadows School of the Arts in 1993, focusing in sculpture and printmaking.
She began exhibiting in the mid 1990’s and has recently shown her work in Kyoto, Japan and Arequipa, Peru as well as solo shows within the past three years in New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Austin. In conjunction with an international conference in Japan, she spent time in 2011 studying contemporary Japanese architecture, a continuing inspiration for her work.
Winter works in a number of different ways with shifts between sculpture and printmaking that occur gradually, one medium informing and overlapping the other. Areas of investigation include ideas of light as the inner source of form and concepts of time relative to memory, physical changes and movement in space. Her subtle use of materials includes light natural wood, translucent cast resin and handmade paper. The play between concerns of light within three-dimensional forms in space and light as a “giver of presence” is in constant consideration between her sculpture and works on paper. Her work reveals forms of physical lightness and ethereal presence.
Winter won first place in the juried exhibition Print TX, 2013 at the Museum of Printing History in Houston. Her prints have been selected for juried exhibitions by curators from the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkley Art Museum, CA, and High Museum, GA. Her work is in major museums, public and private collections both nationally and internationally. Most recently, three of her prints were included in the Houston Museum of Fine Art permanent collection.
EDUCATION 1993 MFA, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor: Sculptor, Mel Kendrick, (Hunter College, NY) 1969 BA, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1970-1983 Architectural Space Planning and Design, Architecture firms, TX, LA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014-2015 Conduit Gallery, “Journey”, Dallas, TX Wade Wilson Art / Santa Fe, “Variations: Structure and Surface: Joan Winter” Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Texas Arthouse, “pure”, Johnson City, Texas Holly Johnson Gallery, Forest Floor Prints, Dallas, Texas Art Museum of Southeast Texas, “Hot Off The Press – Recent work from Flatbed Press” Curated by Sara Beth Wilson, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Beaumont, Texas Print Austin, Link + Pin Gallery, Austin, Texas
AWARDS 2013 First Place Award, Print TX, Houston, TX, Juror Peter Briggs, The Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art, Museum of Texas Tech University
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2016 Flatbed Press at 25, Mark L. Smith and Katherine Brimberry with forward by Susan Tallman, publication featuring the work of selected artists who have printed at Flatbed Press over decades. Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Deedie & Rusty Rose Collection, bequeathed to the Dallas Museum of Art, TX Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston,TX Southern Methodist University – Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX Kingdon Capital Management, New York, NY Middleburg, Riddle, and Gianna Legal Firm, Baton Rouge, LA and Dallas, TX The Capital Group Co., Los Angeles, CA Thomas Property Group – Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA Architectural Lighting, Inc., Dallas, TX W Hotel, Residential Tower – Public Areas, Dallas, TX Mansion Hotel, Rosewood Properties – Public Areas, Dallas, TX Plains Capital Bank Headquarters, Dallas, TX Suntex Capital Investments, Dallas, TX Citation Oil and Gas Corporation, Houston, TX Baker & McKenzie LLP, Houston, TX Four Seasons – Residential Public Areas, Austin, TX Polsinelli – International Legal Firm, Dallas, TX Egon Zehnder International - Executive Advisory Services, Dallas, TX RSF Partners – Investments, Dallas, TX Denham Capital Mgt. – Energy Equity, Houston, T
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