artists > Joanna Pinsky

Joanna Pinsky www.joannapinsky.com is a painter residing in Evanston, Illinois. She creates two dimensional shaped paintings and rectangular works on paper. Over the years, she has explored color and perceptual concepts, textural works pitting off natural materials such as sand, gravel and sawdust against geometric shapes in abstract shaped canvases. Later she explored shape, color and texture to create paintings based on images of architectural structures such as factories and bridges. These evolved into images of architectural fragments and sculptures of heroes inspired by many trips to Cuba. Painted with layers of contrasting colors and textures on gator boards, the works are arranged in unexpected positions so that they seem to be whirling in space. They represent the mix of memories we possess that fly through our minds at different times. Most recently, Pinsky has been combining images of Havana architecture and heroes with images of Illinois architecture and heroes including Abraham Lincoln.

Pinsky has exhibited shaped paintings and rectangular works on paper in numerous solo shows including several at Perimeter Gallery and Nancy Lurie Gallery in Chicago, ArtWorks in Waukegan, Il, and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. A recent large solo show at Oakton Community College's Koehnline Museum featured fifteen years of work inspired by travel to Cuba.Her work has been seen in numerous group exhibits including the Osaka Triennial in Japan, the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, The Springfield Museum, the Charles Wustum Museum in Racine, Wisconsin, the Ukrainian Art Institute in Chicago as well as gallery exhibits in Rockford, IL, Santa Fe, N.M. and Minneapolis, MN, and Louisville, Kentucky. She has been represented by Nancy Lurie Gallery and Perimeter Gallery in Chicago. She is a founding member of Space 900.

Pinsky’s work is in many private, corporate and museum collections including the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Il; Oakton Community College; Northwestern University's Department of Mathematics,Honeywell, Inc, Minneapolis, Sandoz Corp, Des Plaines, Il, the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago and the Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, Il. She has received feature articles in the Chicago Tribune, Crains Chicago Business and Pioneer Press, and her work has been reviewed in The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-times, The New Art Examiner and Pioneer Press Her work is included in the book, The Chicago Art Scene, by Ivy Sundell, Crow Woods Press, 1999.. Pinsky has a B.F.A. from Cornell University where she majored in painting and studied art history.

In addition to her work as an artist, Joanna Pinsky is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Art Encounter, a nearly 40 year old non-profit art education organization with the mission to bring a deeper understanding of art and the creative process to people of all ages and backgrounds. (www.artencounter.org.) For images of Pinsky's work, see www.joannapinsky.com

Chaos Order 1
Acrylic on Gatorboard
Chaos Order 2
Acrylic on Gatorboard
Climate Mambo
Acrylic on Gatorboard
48 x 72 x 7 inch
Climate Polka
Acrylic on Gatorboard
72 x 70 x 10 inch
Climate Tango
Acrylic on Gatorboard
48 x 47 inch
Departure 2
Acrylic on Gatorboard
50 x 77 inch
Interuption
Acrylic on Gatorboard
49 x 35 inch
Possibility
Acrylic on Gatorboard
16 x 25 inch
Autumn
Acrylic on Gatorboard
28 x 33 inch
Festival
Acrylic on Gatorboard
59 x 30 inch
Rolling Hills
Acrylic on Gatorboard
36 x 41 inch
Surf's Inferno
Acrylic on Gatorboard
48 x 42 inch
After Marshall Fredericks
Acrylic on Gatorboard
49 x 45 inch
Worried Lincoln
Acrylic on 2 dimensional gator board
42" x 44'
2018
Malecon Night
Acrylic on arches paper
30" x 22"
Nacional Dream
Acrylic on arches paper
22" x 30"
From Cuba
Acrylic on arches paper
30" x 22"
2D Shaped piece
Acrylic on gator board
2 D Shaped Canvas
Acrylic on Canvas
46" x 66" x2 1/2"
2D Shaped piece
acrylic on gator board
2018
From Cuba
acrylic on gator board
46" x 32"
2015
“Neptune St. Cuba”
Acrylic on Arches paper
26" x 41"
$1800
“Brown Line”
Acrylic on canvas
69" x 50"
$3500

www.joannapinsky.com