Corndog and Joan

Joan relies on furniture and spaces to explore psychological themes, using either pastel or oil paint as the medium. She constructs interactions between the furniture pieces to implicate human relationships. This theme of interacting furniture in surreal settings has been running throughout Joan’s compositions for several years, whether it’s looking to the outside environment or peering inward, into a room. Her interest in drawing and painting furniture is a natural consequence of illustrating furniture for many years for the industry and for publications while living in North Carolina.

Reviews

ART NEW ENGLAND - February/March 2010
Joan Baldwin: Pleasant Bay - Furniture at Cape Cod

ARTSCOPE - March/April, 2010
Thayer Street - A Destination or an Attitude? Maybe Both
Writer James Foritano investigates the various galleries on Thayer Street in the South End:

"On the other hand, Joan Baldwin’s technique, in the adjacent Kingston Gallery, is to strew furniture and plumbing fixtures in plain view amidst her picture-perfect oils of Cape Cod scenes. This would be a joke if Baldwin’s scenes weren’t so compelling, so redolent of sand, sea and air that they make you want to call public works and have “that furniture removed!” But there it sets right in the current of your favorite meandering creek, or hidden bayberry copse, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it – short of vandalism."

Purchasing Information

Some paintings and pastels in the gallery section of this website are for sale. For further information, send an email to Joan.

Joan's Work on Exhibit at the Kingston Gallery 2010