JOAN WALLACE
Born 1959, New York
Education:
BFA, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
Solo Exhibitions
2004 "Methods of
Attachment," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, a MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York -- a survey
of work from 1983 to the present,
organized by Robert Nickas.
Casola Gallery, Peekskill, N.Y., in conjunction
with "The Peekskill Project," sponsored in part by Hudson Valley
Center of Contemporary Art.
Completion of super-16mm trailer/short
for feature, "Now Darkness," written and
directed by Joan Wallace.
(1994 - 2001:
represents a seven year hiatus in which Joan Wallace wrote screenplays,
studied directing, and wrote a column on art, film and culture.)
1991 Postmasters Gallery,
New York.
"Forefront," Wallace & Donohue,"
The National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C.
"Joan Wallace, Geralyn Donohue,"
Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, France.
(1983 - 1989:
Joan Wallace worked as part of the artist team, "Wallace &
Donohue." In 1988 the team
began to author their work separately.
In1990, the partnership was dissolved.)
1989 John Weber Gallery,
New York.
1988 Real Art Ways Gallery,
Hartford, Connecticut.
Postmasters Gallery, New York.
1987 Shafrazi Gallery,
New York.
1986 Postmasters Gallery,
New York.
1985 "Rear Window,"
New Museum, New York.
1983 "Who's Kidding
Who," 172 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Juried Shows
1992
"Documenta IX," Documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs
GmbH, Kassel.
1989 Biennial Exhibition,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Group Exhibitions
2004 "Word of Mouth,"
Dinter Fine Art, New York.
2002
"From the Observatory," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, curated
by Robert Nickas.
2001 "W" show,
Musee de beaux-arts, Frac de franche-comte, France, curated by
Robert Nickas.
1998
"Tout a Centre l'Art Contemporain," Dijon - Le Consortium
Collection, Centre, Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1996
"The Dakis Joannou Collection," Athens School of Fine Arts
"the factory," Athens, Greece, organized by the DESTE Foundation.
1994
"The Use of Pleasure," Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California,
curated by Robert Nickas.
1993
"Mettlesome & Meddlesome," Selections from the Collection
of Robert J. Shiffler," The contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati.
"What do you Expect from a Gallery,
Nowadays?" Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris.
"Dear John Show," Shophia Ungers,
Cologne.
"Live in Your Head," Heiligenkreuzerhof,
Wien, curated by Robert Nickas.
"Postcards from Alphaville, Jean-Luc
Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-1992,"
The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York.
"1968," Le Consortium, L'Usine,
Dijon, curated by Xavier Douroux, Franck
Gautherot, Robert Nickas.
"Serge Kliaving, Francis Baudevin,
Joan Wallace," Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre,
Paris.
"J.S. Bernard, Ken Lum, Joan Wallace,"
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York.
"The OTHER Side," Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, New York, curated by Steve
DiBenedetto.
1991
"Idiosyncrasies in the Expanded Field," Postmasters Gallery,
New York, curated by Laura Nash.
"Louder," Gallery 400, 400 S.
Peoria, Chicago, Illinois.
"Team Spirit," organized by Independent
Curators Inc., Neuberger Museum, S.U.N.Y., Purchase, New York; Cleveland
Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland,
Ohio, 1991; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1991; The Art Museum at Florida International
University, Miami,
Florida, 1991; Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1991; Laumeier Sculpture
Park, St. Louis, Missouri, 1992;curated by Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli
Sundell.
Summer Show, Postmasters Gallery, New York.
"On Representation," Security
Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, California.
"Assembled," University Art Galleries/Wright
State University, Dayton, Ohio.
1990 Postmasters Gallery,
New York.
1989
"Une Autre Affaire," Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
"Color and/or Monochrome," National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto
(1989/1990.)
"Psychological Abstraction,"
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art,
Deka/House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece.
John Weber Gallery, New York.
Postmasters Gallery, New York.
"Anti-Simulation: Materialism and Abstraction," Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter
College, New York, curated by Maurice Berger.
"Science/Technology/Abstraction: Art at the End of the Decade," University
Art Galleries, Wright State University,
Dayton, Ohio, curated by Barry A. Rosenberg.
"Contemporary Perspectives 1: Abstraction
in Question," Ringling Museum of
Art, Sarasota, Florida; Center for Fine Arts, Miami Florida, curated
by Bruce Ferguson, Joan Simon and
Roberta Smith.
1988
"Color Alone: The
Monochrome Experiment," Musee St. Pierre, Lyon France.
"Works.
Concepts. Processes. Situations. Information.," Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
Postmasters Gallery, New York.
"The 'Drawing' Show," Cable Gallery,
New York.
"Artschwager - His Peers and Persuasion,
1963 - 1988," Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles; Leo Castelli, New York.
"Cultural Geomentry," Deste Foundation
for Contemporary art, Deka/House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece.
1987
"Primary Structures," Rhona Hoffman, Chicago.
"Europa/America - Nuovi Territori
dell'Arte," Fondazione Michetti, Fracavilla al
Mare.
"The Art of the Real," Galerie
Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland: Appel
Foundation, Amsterdam.
Postmasters Gallery, New York.
"Reconstruct," John Gibson Gallery, New York.
"Perverted by Language," Hillwood
Art Gallery/C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York,
curated by Robert Nickas.
1986
"When Attitudes Become Form," Bess Cutler Gallery, New York.
"Paravision II," Margo Leavin
Gallery, Los Angeles.
Postmasters Gallery, New York.
303 Gallery, New York.
"Spiritual America," CEPA, Buffalo,
New York.
1985
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York.
"Paravision," Postmasters Gallery,
New York.
"Final Love," Cash/Newhouse,
New York.
1984
"Exposed," Bedrock, Brooklyn
"Cave Painting," Bedrock, Brooklyn.
1983
"Turn it Over," sponsored by White Columns at the Studio
of Sandro Chia, New York.
Bibliography
Roberta Smith, "Steven Parrino, 46,
an Artist and Musician in a Punk Mode," The New York Times, January 3,
2005.
"40th Anniversary Special Issue; The
Eighties: Part Two," Artforum, April 2003.
Roberta Smith, "From the Observatory,"
The New York Times, April 12, 2002.
"The index family, Photographed for
our 5th Anniversary by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders," Index magazine, February/March
2001.
Robert Nickas, W, catalog, Musee de beaux-arts,
Frac de franche-comte, 2001.
Tout a Centre l'Art Contemporain, Dijon
- Le Consortium Collection, catalog, Centre, Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998.
Michael Corris and Robert Nickas, "Punishment
and Decoration; Art in an Age of Militant Superficiality," Artforum,
April 1993.
Jean-Yves Jouannais, "Joan Wallace
and Geralyn Donohue," review, Art Press, January 1992.
Susan Fisher Sterling, Forefront: Wallace & Donohue, brochure, The National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., January 1991.
Robert Atkins, 'Scene and Heard,"
The Village Voice, April, 1991.
Hank Burchard, "Quite a Pair of Individuals,"
The Washington Post, March 1, 1991.
Kim Levin, "Contemporary Collaborative
Schulpture," Sculpture, March 1991.
Tom Kalin, "Joan Wallace," review,
Artforum, September 1991.
Gretchen Faust, "Joan Wallace,"
review, Arts, September 1991.
Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli Sundell,
Team Spirit, catalog, ICI, New York, October 1990.
Robert Nickas, Red, catalog, Galerie Isy
Brachot, Brussels, July 1990.
Barry R. Rosenberg, Assembled, catalog,
University Art Galleries/Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, April 1990.
Cady Noland, "Toward a Meta-Language
of Evil," Balcon, Madrid, Summer, 1989.
Tohru Matsumoto and Keiko Katsuya, Color
and/or Monochrome, catalog, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto,
October 1989.
Leslie Tonkonow, "Joan Wallace &
Geralyn Donohue," two interviews, Journal of Contemporary Art, Fall/Winter
1989.
Stephen Westfall, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, Flash Art, Summer 1989.
Laura Cottingham, "By the Biennial,"
Art & Auction, June 1989.
Robert Nickas, Jack Bankowsky, "Wallace
& Donohue," Flash Art, May/June 1989.
Richard Armstrong, "Wallace &
Donohue," essay, 1989 Biennial Exhibition, catalog, Whitney Museum, New
York, April 1989.
Maurice Berger, A Debate on Abstraction,
catalog, "Anti-Simulation: Materialism
and Abstraction," Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, March
1989.
Barry A. Rosenberg, essay in Science/Technology/Abstraction:
Art at the End of the Decade, catalog, University Art Galleries, Wright
State University, Dayton, Ohio, April 1989.
Jack Bankowsky, "Letter from New York,"
Art Issues, No. 3, Los Angeles, California, April 1989.
Kirby Gookin, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, Artforum, April 1989.
Joshua Dector, review, Arts, February 1989.
Kim Levin, "Voice Choices," The
Village Voice, January 24, 1989.
Kim Levin, "Artwalk," The Village
Voice, January 31, 1989.
Roberta Smith, "That was Then, This
is Now," and Bruce Ferguson, "Paradoxical Images," essays in
Contemporary Perspectives 1: Abstraction
in Question, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, January 1989.
Jude Schwendenwien, "Iconoclastic
Exhibit Challenges our Ideas of Art," The Hartford Courant, Hartford,
Connecticut, Sunday, December 11, 1988.
Amy Taubin, "Video," 'Voice Choices,'
The Village Voice, November 1988.
Owen McNally, "Wallace & Donohue: Double Vision," The Hartford Courant,
Hartford, Ct., November 15, 1988.
Robert Nickas, Jack Bankowsky, Works. Concepts. Processes. Situations.
Information., catalog, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany, October
1988.
Robert Nickas, Color Alone: The Monochrome Experiment, catalog, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon,
France, October, 1988.
Roberta Smith, "Artschwager's Knack
for Hybrid Works," review, The New York Times, June 10, 1988.
Dennis Cooper, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, Artforum, April 1988.
Jack Bankowsky, "Richard Artschwager,"
Flash Art, March/April 1988.
Klaus Kertess, Artschwager - His Peers
and Persuasion, 1963-1988, catalog, Daniel Weinberg Gallery & Leo Castelli
Gallery, March/May 1988.
Roberta Smith, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, New York Times, February 26, 1988.
Jeffrey Deitch, Cultural Geometry, catalog,
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, January 1988.
Lilly Wei, "Talking Abstract, Part
Two," Art in America, December 1987.
Jack Bankowsky, "Pre-Season, Post-War,
Post-Pop, and Postmasters," Art & Auction, October 1987.
Jude Schwendenvien, "Wallace &
Donohue," review, Artscribe, September/October 1987.
Robert Nickas, "Primary Structures,"
exhibition essay, brochure published by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, September
1987.
Roberta Smith, "Group Show,"
review, The New York Times, July 10, 1987.
Achille Bonito Oliva, Europa/America -
Nuovi territory Dell' Arte, catalog, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare,
June 1987.
Dan Cameron, "Seven Types of Criticality,"
Arts, May 1987.
Robert Nickas, The Art of the Real, catalog,
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, June 1987.
Jack Bankowsky, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, Flash Art, April/May 1987.
Phyllis Braff, "Language Becomes the
Medium of the Message," The New York Times, Long Island Edition, March
1, 1987.
Robert Nickas, Perverted by Language, catalog,
Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Greenvale,
New York, February 1987.
Jerry Saltz, "Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art," Alfred van der
Marck Editions, 1986.
Brian Wallis, "Subversive Undertones
in Reactionary Modes," brochure essay, New Museum, New York, February
1986.
Roberta Smith, "Wallace & Donohue,"
review, The New York Times, October 31, 1986.
Published Works
Untitled text, W, catalog, frac de franche-compte,
2001.
"Campion's Victorian," 'Endless
Column," Index Magazine, New York, pp. 94-99, January 1998.
"The Way Art Can be Said to Kill,"
'Endless Column,' Index magazine, New York, pp. 63-69, May/June 1997.
"My Victorian," 'Endless Column,'
Index magazine, pp. 57-64, January 1997.
"That's Sports," 'Endless Column,'
Index magazine, pp 46, August 1996.
"Now Darkness," 'Endless Column,'
Index magazine, pp. 43-49, June 1996.
"The American Guru Complex,"
'Endless Column,' Index magazine, pp. 43-46, April 1996.
"On Marnie," 'Endless Column,"
Index magazine, pp. 33-35, February 1996.
"In the Realm of Defenses," essay
for The Use of Pleasure, catalog, Terrain gallery, San Francisco, California,
February 1994.
Photo Project, Bomb magazine, Summer 1994.
"Desert Storm (Any Linkage?),"
essay for The Painted Desert, catalog, Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, June 1991.
"The Body as Site," Flash Art,
p. 97, November/December 1991.
Wallace & Donohue published
texts:
"A New Call to Order: The Amusement Factor (The idea is to get the viewer into the
hole.)", Team Spirit, catalog, ICI, Inc., New York, 1991, excerpts from
Perverted by Language, catalog, Hillwood Art Gallery, 1987.
"Grazing the Mind Where Complicity
Falters," essay for Works. Concepts. Processes. Situations. Information.,
catalog, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, November 1988, reprinted from brochure,
New Museum, New York, February 1983.
"F.H.I.T.A.," ' Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art,' by Jerry Saltz, Alfred
vander Marck Editions, 1986; reprinted in The Art of the Real, catalog, Galerie
Pierre Huber, Geneva, June 1987.
"Skills:
65 Worlds Per Minute," Perverted by Language, catalog, Hillwood
Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, February 1987.
"The Fear of Gilbert & George,"
Art & Text, #20, cover story, pp. 5-23, February-April, 1986.
"Grazing the Mind Where Complicity
Falters," essay for Rear Window brochure, New Museum, New York, February
1985.
"The Artist Disappears," photo
work, C magazine #7, pp. 78-79, Fall 1985.
"An Interview with Gary Stephan,"
C magazine #4, pp. 68-70, Winter 1984/1985.
"Split Analysis," ZG magazine
#11, Summer 1984; Art & Text
#15, pp. 29-30, Spring 1984.
"Connected by a Conjunction (Specifically,
Convention or Formality,)" Effects magazine #2, 1984.
"Untitled," photo work, New Observations
#20, November 1983.
"The Desert Has No Furniture,"
Turn it Over, catalog for the exhibition sponsored by White Columns at the
studio of Sandro Chia, New York, 1983.
"The Fallacy of Universals,"
Effects magazine #1, Summer 1983.
"The Distance from the Feeling to
the Face," ZG magazine #8, Fall 1982.
"Edit DeAk:
An Inteview by Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue," Real Life magazine
#8, Spring/Summer 1982.
"You Wish You were Closer to You,"
ZG magazine #7, Fall 1982.
"The Difference Between Absence and
Not Being Missed," Journal #33, Summer 1982.
Grants
1988 New York Foundation for the Arts (Wallace & Donohue)