Presenting works by

JO SMAIL JOYCE

J. SCOTT

September 7-10, 2023

Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001

Booth F22

VIP Preview Day (Invitation Only):

Thursday, September 7th

Open to the Public:

Friday, September 8, 11am-7pm

Saturday, September 9, 11am-7pm

Sunday, September 10, 11am-6pm

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The Trawick Prize is a regional contemporary art award that began in 2002 to recognize and support local DC, Maryland, and Virginia artists...

The exhibition features artists working in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, mixed media, film, and more. Works from artists such as Neil Feather, Jiha Moon, Jo Smail, and many others will be displayed in the galleries. Themes span a range of concepts important to each artist from race, oppression, and genealogy to culture, humanity, and emotion to name a few.

Opening Reception and Award Program, February 4, 2023, 5-6 pm Exhibit open for viewing 6-9 pm

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER

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Goofy Gravity and Weighty Gravitas: Jo Smail at Goya Contemporary Smail's new exhibit is equal parts blended diversity and congruous incongruity.

October 24, 2022

Words: Barry Nemett

Photography: Joseph Hyde

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Goya Contemporary, Mill Centre Studio 214, 3000 Chestnut Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21211

Opening Reception 21 September 2022 from 6-8pm

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Sitting in Uncertainty Review of 'Fields and Formations: A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction' at the Katzen Arts Center

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Powerful show of art by women and non-binary artists working in the region today, at the Delaware Contemporary

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Jo Smail, another extremely well-known artist with a decades-long career, is represented by several complex works created with acrylic and fabric on canvas or board. Her abstractions are often autobiographical with references to her homeland, South Africa, and various life events from a studio fire to a stroke. Early in her career she came under the influence of American Color Field painting, and she remains fascinated by color and shape. Her works prove that abstraction can have content. Smail moved to Maryland to teach in 1985, and her impact on artists there has been important.

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A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction

Curated by Kristen Hileman

The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

September 3, 2021 – January 7, 2022

The American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC

January 29, 2022 – May 22, 2022

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Jo Smail’s Visual Poetry Transforms Loss Into Joy

A BMA retrospective celebrates Baltimore’s most resilient, genre-busting visual artist.

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2020 Fall Arts Preview - Baltimore Museum of Art

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Jo Smail's Visual Poetry

Artist Jo Smail in conversation with curator Kristen Hileman

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Studio Visit with Jo Smail

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Critics' Picks

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In Conversation: Jo Smail with Louis Block

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An Artist as Resilient as She Is Joyous.

Few artists have reinvented themselves in their prime the way Jo Smail has few have had to.

Barry Nemett

May 9, 2020

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Jo Smail "Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wings" © 2020

Published in conjunction with the exhibitions "Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wings" shown at The Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1 – August 9, 2020 and "Jo Smail: Bees with Sticky Feet" shown at Goya Contemporary, March 18 – August 9, 2020.

This new artist book is 144 pages and features original images, poems, and essays.

Library of Congress Number 2020900771

ISBN: 978-1-7923-3015-5

$65

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The Baltimore Museum of Art

10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore, MD, 21218

1 March 2020 - 3 January 2021

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ArtfixDaily - 6 Feb 2020

Baltimore Museum of Art to Open 10 Shows in March as Part of 2020 Vision Focus on Women Artists

...Jo Smail: Flying with Remnant Wings March 1 – August 9, 2020 South African-born, Baltimore-based artist Jo Smail uses charged colors and abstract forms to convey the strangeness, vulnerability, and complicated beauty of contemporary life. The exhibition features 50 paintings and works on paper by Smail, as well as collages produced with fellow South African artist William Kentridge. The earliest works date to the late 1990s and early 2000s when the artist overcame a studio fire that destroyed all her previous paintings and a stroke that inhibited her movement and speech. Since then, Smail has continued to draw upon her daily experiences alongside a deep engagement with international literature and theory as she experiments with different media and compositional strategies. Her profound and unique works, accompanied by their poetic and irreverent titles, reflect an irrepressible joy and optimism while never shying away from a world always on the brink of destabilization....