Joanne Greenbaum’s playful abstractions approach painting with a sense of liberation. Primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts, her canvases don’t follow proscribed formulas of conventional painting, but rather continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve…
Joanne Greenbaum’s art is one of maximum attention and maximum risk, disguised as an obsessive game. It is loaded with analogies, historical references and, most importantly, lessons of the hand. In these large, cartoonlike abstractions, there is an entire primer on the gambles and rewards of painting.