Joan Busing
In her paintings and monoprints, Joan Busing expands upon the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in the 1980s. Similar to artists like David Reed and Marylyn Dintenfass, Busing uses layers of thin color, applied in gestural strokes and playful geometric patterns. She creates many of her images by painting on Plexiglas, then transferring them to paper using a press, making a unique, irreproducible print. The satiny veils of blue, turquoise, and gray in touching or overlapping circles and wandering lines create imaginative space and depth in the image plane. The artist has also made prints that complement the Romantic lieders of the composer Robert Schumann.
EDUCATION
Columbia University
Bard College
The Art Students League
COLLECTION
Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - illustrations for “A Woman’s Love and Life”, Robert Schumann’s song cycle, and for “Translated Poems of Rumi”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY - illustrations for “Translated Poems of Rumi”
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Columbia University, New York, NY
Vincent FitzGerald & Co., New York, NY
GUEST LECTURER
Department of Art Visiting Artist, University of Maryland, 2014
EXHIBITIONS
Greenhut Gallery Invitational Print Show, Portland, ME, 2020
Spiegel Gallery at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME, 2018
Urban Dwellings Gallery, Portland, ME, 2016
Portland Museum of Art / Jewelry, Portland, ME, 2015
University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME, 2015
The Design Center, New York City, NY, 2014
Elisa Contemporary Art, New York City, NY, 2013
RIT Cary Graylin Arts Collection, Rochester, NY 2012
Grollier Club /Livres des Artists Illustrated Book Exhibit 2011
Katonah Museum exhibit 2010
Harvard University Houghton Library 2009
Michele Mosko Gallery, Denver, Colorado 2008-2009
The Library of Congress 2007-2008
Solo exhibition, “Colorfields”, 70 monoprints, Bendheim Sackler Gallery, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT, 2006.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, new acquisitions, “The Translated Poems of Rumi”, 2004 (see Published Works)
Center of Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, 2003
Castello Di Borghese Vineyard Gallery, Cutchogue, NY, 2002.
The Chapin School, New York, NY, 2002.
Katonah Museum artist member exhibit, 2002.
Featured Katonah Museum Artist for museum exhibit “Maine and the Modern Spirit”, 2000.
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center “Paper Works”, juried show, Harry Philbrick, curator of Aldrich Museum, juror, 2000.
Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The Publications of Vincent FitzGerald & Company, New York, NY 2000.
Grolier Club, Artists’ book exhibition, New York, NY, 1999-2000.
