Don Joint (born November 3, 1956) is an American artist and

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who lives and works in New York City. His work consists of collage, assemblage, painting, works on paper, and photography. Joint studied at the

Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a Private university, private art school, art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of t ...

and the

Chautauqua Institution The Chautauqua Institution ( ) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on in Chautauqua, New York, northwest of Jamestown, New York, Jamestown in the Western Southern Tier of New York State. Estab ...

Artist

Exhibition

Joint's work has been shown internationally in solo exhibitions at

Pavel Zoubok Gallery Pavel Zoubok Gallery is an art gallery in New York City. Founded in 1997 by Pavel Zoubok, the gallery's program focuses on collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily ...

, NY;

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (WCMFA) is an art museum located in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States. The building is located off Park Circle and serves as a centerpiece in Hagerstown City Park. The museum was donated in 1929, by Mr. an ...

, Hagerstown, MD; RED [London England; Galerie Marion Meyer">ondon.html" ;"title="RED [London">RED [London England; Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France; Price Street Gallery, New York, NY. His work has been included extensively in two-person and group shows in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe, including the Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Art Gallery, St John's University, Queens, NY;

Katonah Museum of Art The Katonah Museum of Art is a non-collecting institution geared towards visual arts, located in Katonah, New York. It does not have a permanent collection, but holds temporary exhibitions. The museum was founded in 1953, in one room at the local ...

, Katonah, NY; McClain Gallery, Houston, TX; The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY; FRED ondon Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA; and Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY. His work has been reviewed in ''

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'', ''

Art in America ''Art in America'' is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It ...

'', ''

ARTnews ''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countr ...

'' and ''

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'' among others, and has been written about by

Susanna Coffey Susanna J. Coffey (born 1949) is an American artist and educator. She is the F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives and works in New York City. She was elected a member the National Academy of ...

Grace Glueck Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for ''The New York Times'' from 1951 until the early 2010s. Early life Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked a ...

, Mario Naves and

Edward Leffingwell Edward G. Leffingwell (December 3, 1941 – August 5, 2014), was an American art critic and curator, affiliated with MoMA/P.S.1 and ''Art in America''Roberta Smith"Edward G. Leffingwell, Curator, Dies at 72"(obituary), ''The New York Times'', Aug. ...

. Don Joint is represented in New York by Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and his collage work is represented in New York by Pavel Zoubok Gallery.

Public Collections

Selected public collections with Joint's work include

Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of ...

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egypt ...

, David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University,

Erie Art Museum Erie Art Museum is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Museum holds a collection of more than 8,000 objects, with strengths in American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, photography, and comic book art. Focusing on the museum collectio ...

, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond,

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United State ...

Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, ...

, Syracuse University Art Museum,

Swope Art Museum The Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, was originally funded by a bequest from Michael Sheldon Swope (1843–1929), a Civil War veteran and jeweler who lived in Terre Haute much of his adult life. Planning for the a ...

, and

University of Iowa Museum of Art The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art is a visual arts institution that is part of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Since its inception, the museum has partnere ...

Residencies

Joint has held residencies at the

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at ...

and the

Vermont Studio Center The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) is a non-profit arts organization located in the town of Johnson, Vermont. It conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the United States, with a significant population of international artis ...

Book Covers

Joint created collages for the cover for every issue of the annual arts journal ''

The Sienese Shredder ''The Sienese Shredder'' was an annual journal of art, literature, design, poetry, and music that was published between 2006 and 2010. In addition to written and visual content each issue contained an audio CD. History ''The Sienese Shredder'' w ...

'' (2006–2010) and the slipcase that housed the volumes, as well as the 10th Anniversary Edition of

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's ''

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'', published by Paris Press in 2012.

Curator

As curator of the Shredder space, Joint was a pivotal to the partnership that formed New York's

Schroeder Romero & Shredder Schroeder Romero & Shredder is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Gallerist Lisa Schroeder has professed a preference for conceptual and sociopolitical art. Notable exhibitions have included those of ...

gallery. Interviewed by

Magazine, the gallery's director Mark Shortliffe encapsulated the program: "The gallery will always have a strong contemporary show but will hopefully stretch how we view new art by pairing it with older, influential works. We'll show two exhibitions simultaneously: one contemporary and one historical, encouraging a dialogue between the two." In ''

'' review of Schroeder Romero's ''VIVD'' and Shredder's ''PAVERS'',

Roberta Smith Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of ''The New York Times'' and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is the first woman to hold that position. Early life Born in 1948 in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. Smith studied ...

said, "The shows' invigorating call and response bodes well for future interactions between these side-by-side entities." As an independent curator, Joint also organized ''Manufactured Unreality: The Art of Collage'' at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

References

Bibliography

*R. C. Baker, "Uptown and in Chelsea, Two Shows Exemplify the New Surreal," The Village Voice, May 14, 2014 *Erik La Prade, "Don Joint: Coney Island Blueprints,"catalogue essay, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York *Susana Coffey, "Fishing For Knick Knacks: Collages by Don Joint," catalog essay, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY *John Goodrich, "Cut-and-paste, Then and Now," The New York Sun, July 3, 2008 *Alexandra Anderson-Spivy, "Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink," Artnet Magazine, July 28, 2008 *Mario Naves, "Oil on an Unusual Surface: A Painting Finds His Marbles," Currently Hanging: The New York Observer, January 23, 2005, p 16. *Edward Leffingwell, Brice Brown and Don Joint at Francis M. Nauman,." Art in America, January 2005, p 130 *Grace Gleuck, Art in Review: Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint," The New York Times, April 23, 2004 *Peter Frank, Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint," May–June 2004

External links

Don Joint artist page on Francis M. Nauman Fine Art

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