Joan Kiley

Artist Statement:
Artist Statement

What interests me is the erratic mixture and circus like quality of multimedia images influencing our visual language today. We are assaulted daily with opposing images that can create a blurred tension within us. How do we process all of this information in our lives.

Humor plays a definite role in this artwork, making light of the seriousness with which we take ourselves. I randomly choose each image for a painting from varying places in media, magazines, TV, movies, and books.

My art making process involves drawing, using the computer program Photoshop, and then having large iris prints made as working sketches. From these prints I redraw onto primed wood or canvas and then paint on a larger scale in oils. Consequently, because of this process, a synthesis occurs from these frequent changes. The final paintings have a new and different spirit from the original computer drawing.

This recent artwork includes spin-offs from mass media, cultural icons, and from folk art. I thrive on the act of painting, love color and texture and the surprise that comes from producing visual poetry.
Joan Kiley
Biography:
Joan Kiley
243 Union Street 310
Eclipse Mill Studios
North Adams, MA 01247
413 6649297 lnevelson@hotmail.com
www.funkyartist.com

Education
Mass College of Art Boston MA
BFA 1991
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Spring 1991
Clark Institute Computer Graphics - 1992

Exhibition History

October 2007 Eclipse Mill Open Studios

November 2006
Eclipse Mill Group Show
North Adams MA

October 2006 Eclipse Mill Open Studios
North Adams MA

October 2006 Athens Cultural Center Athens, NY
Two plus One Two Painters One glass sculptor

July 2006 Eclipse Mill Gallery North Adams MA
Expressions in Color

November 2005 Eclipse Mill Gallery Group Show

November 1988 to 2004 Waltham Open Studios, Waltham, MA
ongoing yearly

February 2000 Gallery at the School of the MFA Boston MA
New Media Digital Art

June 2001 Artists West Studios Waltham, MA
Gala Studio Celebration and Benefit Auction
Artist Website:
www.funkyartist.com