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Joan Ades is a New York-based visual poet, whose work explores landscapes, particularly the interplay between what is found and what can be imagined. Her environments are imbued with mystery and the act of discovery through her sensitivity to tone and proficiency in printmaking, collage, photography, and encaustics. Working in the Hudson Valley and New York City for the last thirty years, Joan is passionate about stepping into nature and capturing the hidden beauty in both rural and urban landscapes. Her work acts as a means to uncover that beauty and share it visually for all to see.
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EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Graduate Fine Arts Program, l980-l983
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, B.A.
Workshops in & around Woodstock NY 1984-2006, including Women’s Studio Workshop, R&F Encaustics, Nicholas Buhalis, & Kate McGloughlin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Two for the Road,” Doghouse Gallery Saugerties, NY, October 15-November13, 2011 (with M. Rowley)
“Go, go, go said the bird,” Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY February 20, 2010 (with Carey Harrison & Claire Lambe)
“Indigo Spirit, ” Woodstock Artists Association, October 26-November 17, 2002
“Open Landscape,” Woodstock Artists Association, March 11-April 2, 2000
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
“Black & White,” Woodstock School of Art, May 18- July 6, 2013 (Juror: Peik Larsen)
“Earth, Air, Water,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, June 16-Sept. 30, 2012. (Juror: Sara Lynn Henry)
“The Woodstock Open,” Woodstock Golf Club, Summer 2013
“March Group Show,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, March 10-April 8, 2012 (Juror: Carinda Swann)
“Small Works,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, March 10-April 8, 2012 (Juror: Ken Buhler)
“Recent Work,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, Feb. 11-March 4, 2012 (Juror: Ed Smith)
“Small Works,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, Feb. 11-March 4, 2012 (Juror: Nancy Azara)
“Bau Presents at the Muddy Cup Poughkeepsie,” December 1, 2006- March 2007 (Jurors: Elizabeth Winchester & Franc Palaia)
“Black & White,” Woodstock Artists Association, 2003 (Juror: Sylvia Leonard Wolf)
“Hudson Valley Artists 2002,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Summer 2002 (Juror: Sydney O. Jenkins)
“Seeing Red,” Woodstock Artists Association, October 2002 (Jurors: Fay Wood & Nancy Campbell)
“Recent Work,” Woodstock Artists Association, September 2002 (Juror: Elisa Pritzker)
“Active Members Show,” Woodstock Artists Association, July 2002
“Something About Animals,” Woodstock Artists Association, May 2002 (Juror: Eva Van Rijn)
“Things That Go Together,” Woodstock Artists Association, March 2002 (Jurors: Ernie Shaw & Marna Anderson)
“The Season Begins,” Woodstock Artists Association, February 2002 (Juror: Michael Lang)
“The Printers,” Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, 1999 (Dot Chast & Dorothy Rodgers, curators)
“Form and Line,”Woodstock Artists Association, l988 (Juror: Zak Zaikine)
“First Annual National Competition at the Salmagundi Club,” National Drawing Assoc. (Jurors: Jacqui Morgan &Harold Stevens) l987
“Hudson Valley ’86,” Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY, l986 (Juror: Holly Solomon)
“Awards Show,” Woodstock Artist’s Assoc. l985 (Carol Stikker, juror)
“Visions of l984,” University of California at Santa Barbara, University Center Gallery, l984 (Juror: Richard Ross)
“National SX-70 Show,” Pratt Institute and Leonard’s Artspace, Modesto, CA, l984
“Primitive Images” Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA, l983
“Photospiva ‘83,” Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO, l983
“Photo/Flow 2,” University of Texas at Arlington, l983 (Jurors: Sandy Skoglund, Robert Heinecken, Rick Hock)
“Brooklyn Bridge/Brooklyn Artists,” Brooklyn Museum, l983
Rhode Island School of Design, The Photography Gallery, l980
ADDITIONAL GROUP SHOWS & BENEFITS
“New Jersey Audubon: Celebration of Pete Dunne,” June 28, 2014
“Reflections” The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, December 2006-Jan 13, 2007
“One Night Stand For the Land” Art Fundraiser to Protect Farm Field Forest…Hudson Valley, December 7, 2006
“Anything Goes!” The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, June 18-July 9, 2005
Annual Fine Art Auctions, Woodstock Day School, 2004-2006
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Honorable Mention, “Earth, Air, Water,” Woodstock Artists Assoc. & Museum, June 16-Sept. 30, 2012 (Juror: Sara Lynn Henry)
Honorable Mention, “Black & White, ” Woodstock Artists Association, 2003 (Sylvia Leonard Wolf, juror)
“Weekend Winners,” Poughkeepsie Journal, Enjoy! March 10, 2000
“Ades’ Oasis,” Woodstock Times, March 23, 2000 (by Renee Samuels)
“Tenth Anniversary Show at CCFP- Part II,” June 11, 1987 (by Daniel Logan)
“In a New Light,” Woodstock Times, May 21, 1987
Honorable Mention “Hudson Valley ‘86,”Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY (Holly Solomon, juror)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & COLLECTIONS
Guest Curator, Two Exhibitions & Catalogue: “Ten Year Anniversary Shows” l986-87, The Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Consulting Editor & Contributing Artist: eye 13/Space Digest Today; original works by 44 artists, l985- l986. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, l985-l986.
New Directions; edited and researched photographs (with Weston Naef), l984
The Gallery of World Photography; photo researcher, 12-volume history of photography series, (Shueisha Publishing Co.), l982-l983.
The Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Assistant to Colta Ives, Weston Naef, Department of Prints and Photographs.
Assisted in the preparation of the following exhibitions and publications (l978-l982): The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Century; Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs; Georgia O’Keefe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz; and Eliot Porter: Intimate Landscapes After Daguerre
Freelance Photojournalist, l976-l978. Photographs published in: Soho Weekly News, The Villager, Science Digest, The Phoenix, etc.
Assistant Instructor of Photography, The International Center of Photography, l977-l978.