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Installation view of my solo,\u00a0\u00a0Joanne Mattera: Celebrating 25 Years with Arden Gallery,<\/i>\u00a0up through the end of March<\/p>\n

One of the pleasures of getting older is the history we create for ourselves with family, friends, and colleagues. I am fortunate to have several long-term relationships with galleries, fruitful associations with colleagues who have become friends. In the previous installation, you saw Director’s Choice: Celebrating 30 Years at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, <\/i>a group show curated by Kenise Barnes with some of the artists who have been with her over the long haul. In this post, I share with you photos of my solo show with Arden Gallery, Boston. Gallery director Zola Solamente selected work to represent our quarter century together.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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2000 to 2025: twenty-five years in two\u00a0 images<\/p>\n

Above, Uttar 5, <\/i>2000, encaustic on canvas on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n

Below: Call and Response 31,<\/i>\u00a02025, oil and oil pastel on 300-lb Fabriano hot press, 25 x 25 inches framed<\/p>\n

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At left: Uttar 295, <\/i>2006, encaustic on panel, 37 x 37 inches framed.\u00a0Scroll down and we’ll continue around the gallery
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Silk Road<\/i>, clockwise from top left: #331, 2016; #370, 2017; #335, 2017; #345, 2017; all encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n

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A constant through the years: square format, saturated color, the grid more or less in evidence–with an occasional foray into hard-edge geometry<\/p>\n

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Deja Vu,<\/i>\u00a02000, encaustic on canvas on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n

There’s a grid etched into the surface<\/p>\n

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Mudra 17,<\/i>\u00a0encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n

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Silk Road 457,<\/i>\u00a02019, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches<\/p>\n

I titled this series\u00a0Silk Road, <\/i>not only because of the fabric-like shimmer and texture, but because of the\u00a0<\/i>way my ideas about the interaction of color and surface travel from painting to painting, a long road of chromatic and textural expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Silk Road 496,<\/i>\u00a02020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches<\/p>\n

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Silk Road 469,<\/i>\u00a02020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches<\/p>\n

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Left: Uttar 252; <\/i>right: Uttar 258,<\/i>\u00a0both encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/div>\n

I started Uttar <\/i>in 2000 and continued it through 300 paintings, concluding the series in 2005. I was inspired by the saturated palette of the paintings of Renaissance Siena and the miniatures of India and Persia. The grid was an important element of the composition in Uttar<\/i><\/p>\n

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Diamond Life,<\/i>\u00a02022, encaustic on panel, 25 inches point to point<\/p>\n

Occasionally turn my attention of hard edge geometry. I guess you could call it the rigorous yang to the succulent yin of color field. Many similarities remain: the saturated palette, my abiding interest in the surface, the richness of encaustic paint. The grid is skewed at an angle<\/p>\n

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Diamond Life 31; Chromatic Geometry 20,<\/i>\u00a02014; Chromatic Geometry 34,<\/i>\u00a02015; Diamond Life 15,<\/i>\u00a02012; all encaustic on panel<\/p>\n

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Around the corner: three Silk Road<\/i>, from top:\u00a0#453,<\/i>\u00a02019; #374,\u00a0<\/i>2019; #348, <\/i>2017, all encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches. On far wall, paintings by Isabelle van Zeijl<\/span><\/p>\n

Celebrating 25 Years with Arden Gallery <\/i>is up through March 31.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Arden Gallery is at 129\u00a0 Newbury Street in Boston.<\/p>\n

Click here <\/b><\/a>for hours and info about the gallery; here<\/b><\/a> for more about my solo.<\/p>\n

Big appreciation to gallery director Zola Solamente, who curated the exhibition, and her partner, Rick Boomer, who welcomes you when you visit.<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s a look at the two small paintings on the left side of the installation view that opens this post:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Silk Road 311<\/i><\/p>\n

Both 2015, encaustic on panel, 12 x 12 inches<\/div>\n
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