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Oil and flasche on linen
20 x 16 inches
From the collection of Steve Shane, NYC, in honor of Joanne Cohen
Estimated Retail Value: $10,000
Starting Bid: $5,000
Through her use of vibrant color and intuitive composition, Joanne Greenbaum’s work achieves balance through the unconventional layering of forms in a complex pictorial space. In her dense, improvisational abstractions, Greenbaum layers different materials into vibrant, highly worked surfaces that balance spontaneity and control—combining gestural marks, scribble-like forms, and graphic elements that suggest both drawing and writing without settling into one. Often built through accumulation and revision, the paintings foreground process, with color and line interacting in unpredictable, almost musical ways. This work stems from a series that reflects Greenbaum’s commitment to pushing abstraction beyond fixed systems, creating works that feel immediate, intuitive, and visually complex.
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Joanne Greenbaum
Joanne Greenbaum (b. 1953, New York, NY; lives and works in New York) received her BA from Bard College. Over the past two decades, she has exhibited widely at institutions including MoMA PS1, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and Haus Konstruktiv, which mounted a career-spanning survey of her work in Zurich in 2008. Her work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum Abteiberg, Haus Konstruktiv, the Rose Art Museum, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.
