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Your Existence is Not Unlike My Own 2007. Handmade paper, Mylar, printing ink, pulp painting, Acrylic. 66" H x 120" W.
Your Existence is Not Unlike My Own, detail (side view). 2007, handmade paper, mylar, printing ink, pulp painting, acrylic.
Would You Swim the Ocean for to Ease My Pain 2006. Handmade paper, Mylar, printing ink, pulp painting, acrylic. 105" H x 151" W.
Would You Swim the Ocean for to Ease My Pain (detail). 2006, handmade paper, mylar, printing ink, pulp painting, acrylic.
Tangled Up and Blue 2006. Handmade paper, Mylar, printing, pulp painting, acrylic. 93" H x 123" W.
From the Sea 2006. Handmade paper, Mylar, printing, pulp painting, acrylic. 53 1/2" H x 54" W.

Joan Hall

Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art

Director, Island Press

hall@samfox.wustl.edu

314-935-6571

314-935-6462

Bixby 104

Campus Box 1031

Biography

Hall is known for her innovative and large-scale approaches to printmaking and papermaking. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally: The Rijswijk Museum (Holland), Appledoorn Museum (Holland), The Hillwood Museum (Brookville, NY), Bruno David Gallery (St. Louis, MO), Korean International Invitational (Korea), Contemporary American Paper Artists at Columbia College (Chicago, IL), The 26th Print International at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), Paper Re-Visioned Installation at the Museum Art Center (Silkeborg, Denmark; 11 international artists featured), Midlands 2000 at the Joselyn Museum of Art (Omaha, NE), Currents 79 at the Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri), Survey of Contemporary Paper Artists at the Midland Art Center (Michigan), St. Louis City Series at Cedar Rapids Art Museum (Iowa), Museum Aemstelle (The Netherlands), Budapest Museum of Art, Leopold-Hoesch Museum (Germany), and the Nordjylands Museum (Aalborg, Denmark).

Hall's work has been published in the following books: Papermaking for Printers, A&C Black, London, England; Nouvel Objet V, (artists from 60 countries), Seoul, Korea; Artforms, Longman Press, NY, 6th edition; Artforms, Harper-Collins, NY, 5th edition; The History of Paper Art, Weinard Verlag, Germany; Printmaking: A Primary Form of Expression, University Press, Denver, CO; The Art and Craft of Papermaking, Quarto Publishing, London, England; Paper Mageri II, Borgen Publishers, Denmark; The Art of Papermaking, Davis Publishing, Worchester, MA.

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Statement

In my work I am interested in not only creating parallels in images from the past and the present, but also in the techniques I use, from traditional methods of making paper and hand printing to digital technology. I am interested in crossing boundaries between painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Earlier works formed relationships with references to nautical instruments, mapping, and knots—remnants of man's effort to conquer the sea. Through the power of suggestion by relying on color, texture, and light: natural phenomena such as water, wind, currents, and waves are implied in the work. My works negates any traditional sense of perspective, much as the waters themselves offer no obvious navigational clues other than the endless line of the horizon.

In my most recent work, I began adding to the work contemporary bio-tech images of genetically altered proteins, and images of cancer cells with cellular sea life images. Ultimately this relationship is one of cell to body to planet and the permeability of our basic structure from part to whole; we are of and by the sea.

My attitude of "just do it" is the motto for my life, my research, and my teaching.

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