Serious Play, 2023 FATE National Juried Members Exhibition
Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado
FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education)
Join me Saturday, July 31, 2021 at the National Basketry Organization’s Virtually Woven 2021 from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. (PST) as I join fellow panelists David Paul Bacharach, Christine Clark and Barbara DePirro for a presentation and discussion entitled Material Celebration.
Collaboration project with Valentino des Atelier for the Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino House of Fashion, for their Fall/Winter 2021/2022 Haute Couture Collection.
Below, Through, Above and Beyond the Datum Level
Surface Design Association
Online Exhibition, Curated by Viv Davy
https://www.surfacedesign.org/membergalleries/below-through-above-and-beyond-the-datum-level/
Stay tuned for a nice feature of my work in an upcoming issue of Contemporary Identities, a beautiful on-line international art magazine at https://www.contemporaryidentities.com/
ContemporaryIdentities is an independent quarterly international online magazine covering contemporary art from around the world. The focus of ContemporaryIdentities is to showcase and promote experimental and progressive contemporary art through short art reviews from international scholars, art writers and art critics who are invited regularly to contribute to this publication. Alongside invited contributors, there will be selected artists interviews and open call for internationals artists, graphic designers and art critics.
Due to its multicultural approach and dialogue between nations ContemporaryIdentities has been chosen to be part of the Arts and Society database that is in partnership with Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH), UNESCO-MOST, The Global Chinese Art, Culture and Society (GCACS) & Mémoire de l’Avenir - Arts and Society (MDA).
To find out more visit: https://arts-and-society.org/artists/contemporary-identities/
Editions Alternatives, Gallimard Group located in Paris, France will be publishing a book by Marie-Madeleine Masse entitled L’ Art du fil (Art of the Thread) is out now. Images of my work will be featured and the heading of Time.
Purchase with link below:
New cover image and article featured in June 2018 edition of Australian art magazine, Textile Fibre Forum.
Another iteration of Hooked on Svelte will be on exhibit at the University of Nebraska in Omaha from Friday, October 6 through November 9, 2017.
An all new installation of Hooked on Svelte will be included in the group exhibition, Material as Metaphor at the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The installation will include ten new hand-wrapped fiber sculptures. The exhibition will be on display from May 28 through August 20, 2017.
Coming in 2017 to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee:
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now featuring a grouping of six of my hanging fiber sculptures entitled, Hooked on Svelte.
Hooked on Svelte, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI 2015-2016 Joel S. Allen
http://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/state-of-the-art-discovering-american-art-now/
New works from "Hooked on Svelte", my continuing series of hand-wrapped fiber sculptures, will be featured in the upcoming exhibit Suspended! at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Michigan, December through March. Stay tuned for more details.
A new commission at the historic Desmond Building in Downtown L.A.
Eight custom, hand-wrapped hanging fiber pieces have been commissioned for the multimillion dollar renovation of the historic Desmond Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Installation of the grouping is expected to be completed by early September.
http://www.som.com/news/som_to_revive_historic_desmond_building_for_entertainment_giant_aeg
Hooked on Svelte
Upcoming Solo Exhibition:
ArtShare of Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Opening reception: May 8th, 6-8pm
A new smaller version of the hanging fiber sculptures from the continuing series, Hooked on Svelte is now available. The originals are all about 7' in length, but the new mini versions will all be 4' - 4 1/2' in length. Dozens of sample colors and color combinations are available upon request.
I have accepted my second artist residency at the beautiful Brush Creek Ranch Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming. For more information about Brush Creek Ranch check out the following link:
CBS Sunday Morning video report on State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now from November 9, 2014.
**Opening September 13 and showing through January 19:
A national group exhibition, State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Five of my hanging fiber sculptures from my continuing series Hooked on Svelte will be featured in this ambitious exhibition featuring over 200 works of art from 102 artists selected from throughout the country.
**Opening August 22 and showing through November 22:
"Hooked on Svelte" at the Jessie Wilbur Gallery in the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, Montana. I will also be exhibiting a collection of Acrylic Wall Art in the lobby.
