Jo Smail is an artist that deals with using canvas on her paintings as cutouts or shapes. There is literally painted pieces of canvas cutouts on each painting.
Jo Smail Website
I really like her "Statements" where she talks about her work, such as painting.
Art in America - Jo Smail 2012
NY Times- Art in Review - Jo Smail- 2006
THE PAINTINGS
Bare canvas: a constant reminder of beginnings
I patch: construct, build
I glue: cover up
I tear: like giving birth
I cut: damage or break
I wrap: like clothing
I paint: reveal, excavate
Pattern evokes origins
Jo Smail Artist Bio
Jo Smail was born and educated in South Africa. In South Africa she taught in the Fine Art
Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, the Johannesburg College of Art and the
Johannesburg Art Foundation. She was represented by the Goodman Gallery.
She has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art since 1988, and is currently represented
by Goya Contemporary Art Gallery in Baltimore and Washington. Solo shows include: 2008
McLean Project for the Arts, Mclean, Virginia, 2007 Goya Contemporary, 2006 Axis Gallery, NY,
NY. 2004 Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA. 2004 Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD.
She has had reviews published in: The New York Times, Art in America, Art on Paper, City Paper
Baltimore, Baltimore Sun and The Hudson Review among others.
She has won numerous awards. A selection includes: 2012 The Trawick "Best of the Best"
"Sapphire" award, 2007 The Trawick Prize, 2007 Strictly Painting, 2008, 2004, 1995 & 1991
Creative Fellow at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
She is represented in private collections internationally, and in public collections including the
National Gallery of South Africa, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Chase Manhattan Bank, the
Mobil Corporation and The United States Embassy, Johannesburg.
freaking awesome post, Molly
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