Joan Kelly (MFA 2005)
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Joan Kelly did an independent study of the Art Collections in Vienna, Austria January, 2005. While receiving her masters of fine arts, she did her assistant teaching in lithography with Rosalie Appel and in painting with Marjorie Portnow. Joan spent January through August, 2003 in Italy creating a body of work in oils and studying art history. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1993 with an Arts Major in Painting, graduating Magna Cum Laude. In 1987-88 she studied Traditional Chinese Painting with Diana Kan and at the Studio Art School Of the Aegean, Samos, Greece, she studied with Ruth Miller and Andrew Forge. Joan is an Assistant Professor, teaching drawing at Nanyang Technological University in a 3 year contract that began July 25, 2005. She says, "Through my experience studying with Margaret Grimes and Marjorie Portnow I feel I have a strong foundation as to how to approach and express the ideas of art from a variety of directions. Being Marjorie Portnows' teaching assistant was one of the greatest privileges of my education. My study has immersed my life in the language of art, and I feel equipped to lead the creative life of my choice and teach others while doing so." Joan sent an update from Singapore during the University break (9/05). She was sent on a fresco workshop and was taking tea lessons as well as philosophy.
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Joan Kelly is a visual Artist working primarily
as a painter in oils. Her work is involved in observation and the act of
seeing, and the process of transforming. Her canvases are created on site.
She works with still life and landscape simultaneously. The space created by
the over lapping of these subjects is an integration of two dimensional
picture plane and a three dimensional perspectival vision. There is a great
sense of openness and optimism through her use of color and paint handling
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Additional Education 1984 - Woodstock School of Art, Studied landscape painting with Robert Angeloch
1981-83 - National Academy Of Design, New York, NY., studied sculpture with Jerry Luisi
1979-85 - The Art Students League Of New York, studied Painting and drawing with Robert Beverly Hale, Ted Seth Jacobs, Daniel Greene, and Michael Ponce de Leon
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Mural Commissions 2001 - Completed a series of eighteen still life paintings of food for “The Rose Restaurant”. Four of seafood -34”x 34”, two of wine and cheese- 46” x 46”, and twelve of fruit-34” x 34” I worked with architect Frank Gant on this project.
2001 - Commissioned painting for the Chesapeake Center For The Creative Arts. The painting was then reproduced for a poster
2000 - Completed a mural for the Reading Room of St. Elizabeth Elementary school 30’ x 20’
2000 - Completed three murals for Brooklyn Park Middle School, working for architectural firm, Grimm and Parker. 48’ x 10’, 42’ x 38’, and 2’x 30’ $20,000.00 1999 - Completed a series of ceramic tiles for a fireplace for Gould Architects, P.A. $450.00 for each tile 1999-2000 - Series of twelve murals for the Belvedere Hotel. The murals are of the nine muses of the arts and sciences in Greek and Roman mythology. 1999 - Series of 5 murals in the Law Office Of Jeffrey Hinds, Baltimore, MD. 1999 - 1% for Art Public Commission: mural for Baltimore City at Montebello Elementary School 1998 - 5’ x 25’ oil painting $20,000.00 1997 - Mural for the Sons of Italy Lodge Baltimore, MD 6.5’ x 25’ oil paint Honors and Awards 1992-1993 Baltimore City Council Fine Arts Grant 1987 Studio Art School of The Aegean Painting Scholarship 1984 First Prize for painting; Scholarship Exhibit Awarded by the National Arts Club, NY 1984 Alexander Schilling Memorial Grant 1984 Woodstock School Of Art Summer Scholarship Exhibitions 2005 Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY 2005 "Tour de Clay” Invitational exhibition sponsored by Maryland Institute College of Art curator: Ron Lang 2002 “American University Graduate Exhibition” Corciano, Italy Curator, Don Kimes 2001 “Maryland Art Place Benefit Exhibition and Auction” Curator, Jack Rasmussen 1999 “Vital Finds” Solo Installation exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Curator, Jack Rasmussen 1998 “Circa the Figure” Group Exhibition, Baltimore Clayworks, Curator, Blaise Depaolo 1997 15th Anniversary Celebration Reunion Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, curator, Jack Rasmussen, 1998 Tamarack Gallery sponsored by the state of West Virginia Solo Exhibition 1996 “Sculptors-No Wheels” Studio Artists at Baltimore Clayworks at University of Maryland 1996 “Catholic Girls” Mixed Media exhibition of Catholic Artists at George Mason University Oct. 16, 1996 - Dec. 16, 1996 and Maryland Art Place Oct. 15, 1996 - Nov. 15, 1996 curator, Jack Rasmussen 1994 Group exhibition, Theater Project Baltimore, MD curator, Kate Tallent
1989 Group Exhibition, Katenstein Gallery, Baltimore, MD. 1988 Solo Exhibition, Gregg Gallery, New York, NY. 1985 Two Woman Exhibition, Gregg Gallery, New York, NY. 1984 Group Exhibition of Grant Recipients from the Art Students League, Lincoln Center, New York 1983 Group Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY Community Projects 1999-2000 Working with Baltimore Clayworks in after school programs such as Boys and Girls Club in Harford County, and West Baltimore. I worked with artist Susan Lowe, creating tiles for the Baltimore Clayworks “Harriet’s Dreams” project with disabled adults at Keswick Multi-care Center.
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