Dennis Hollingsworth

Joanne

The first thing we did when we flew into the JFK late in the afternoon was to see Joanne Greenbaum?s show at D?Amelio+Terras. It was the very last hours of her show there. I met Joanne in Basel several years ago when Peter Pakesch curated us into ?Nach Bild?, a group show at the Kunsthalle there.

Joanne paints in this super thin, sometimes transparent oils. I like how her work pops from a distance, something I need to pay more attention to. She composes like I do in an accretion of forms that torque into an argument. (Well, that's one way to see it.)

Two of these works were painted at a residency Joanne did at Skowhegan recently. She deliberately painted large scale work to arrest the eyeballs. And it worked. People saw the show, there was talk and she was reviewed a few times. Recently, when I tuned into the ArtForum website, one of her paintings was reproduced on the home page.

Joanne is supercool.