Joel Janowitz, Large Joel Janowitz Boston Modernist Monotype Monoprint Painting Piranesi Series, 1989

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Joel Janowitz (American, born 1945). Monotype art print on paper titled "Still Life 07 C/C," circa 1989 This piece features … Read more Joel Janowitz (American, born 1945). Monotype art print on paper titled "Still Life 07 C/C," circa 1989 This piece features a still life composition of tableware, including pitchers, bowls, and cups. From his Piranesi series. The artist's (partially obscured) pencil signature is located along the bottom edge, slightly left of center. Provenance: label from "The Harrison Gallery" (Boca Raton, FL) is affixed to the verso. From a private Palm Beach collection. The sight size is approximately 28.5" x 40.5". Framed dimensions: 39 X 50 X 1 in. Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely. To date he has had over thirty solo exhibitions. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Harvard Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2016 Janowitz received his fourth Artist’s Fellowship in painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2013 The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation honored him with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has twice received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has led workshops on monoprint collagraph printing techniques withSarah Amos. Janowitz has taught at Wellesley College (2003-2010), Massachusetts College of Art/Fine Arts Work Center’s Low-Residency MFA program (2006-2010), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1994-2000). He received his B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University in 1967 where he studied painting with Philip Guston and drawing with Michael Mazur. He received an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1969. STUDIES 1967 BA Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1969 MFA in Painting, University of California, Santa Barbara SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2017 Gallery 344, “Protected Trees,” Cambridge MA (Upcoming) 2016 Spotlight Gallery, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, “Merge,” Cambridge, MA Art Institute of Boston, “Breathing Spaces,” (2 person exhibition), Boston, MA 2011 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA 2009 Regis College,”Seeing in Three Media: Monotype, Oil, Watercolor,” Weston, MA Victoria Munroe Fine Art, “Watercolors,” Boston MA 2008 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA 2007 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, “The Monotypes,” Boston, MA Victoria Munroe Fine Art, “A Diner, a Porch, and a Parking Lot,” Boston, MA 2006 g Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME 2005 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, “Venetian Shadows and Northern Shores,” Boston, MA 1996 The Painting Center, “Recent Paintings,” New York, NY 1995 Thomson Gallery, “Egg Tempera Series,” Minneapolis, MN 1992 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Minneapolis Institute of Art, “The Nature of Nature,” Minneapolis, MN Schoolhouse Gallery, Mark Adams/ Adam Davies/ Joel Janowitz/ Ellen Rich Provincetown, MA French Cultural Center, “The Par Avion Project,” Boston MA // City Hall, Strasbourg, France 2011 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, “Highpoint Editions—Decade One,” Minneapolis, MN Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, “A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Edouard Monet to David Hockney,” Las Vegas, NV 2010 Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, “Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Nagoya, Japan Danforth Museum, “Community of Artists,” Framingham, MA 2002 The Drawing Center, “25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition,” New York, NY Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, “The Figurative Tradition,” Waltham, MA 1999 The Carnegie Gallery, “Connoisseurs,” Cincinnati, OH DNA Gallery, “Escape,” Provincetown, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, “Faculty Exhibition,” Boston, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, “A Special Tribute to Stephen D. Paine,” Boston, MA Bernard Toale Gallery, “Greatest Hits,” Boston, MA 1987 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, “Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition 1987,” NY, NY National Academy of Design, “Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection,” 1986 Museum of Fine Arts, “Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,” Boston, MA Frumkin Gallery, “First Impressions, Recent Monotypes by 15 Artists,” including Charles Arnoldi, Pat Steir, John Walker, Joel Janowitz, Michael David and William Wiley. New York, NY Barbara Krakow Gallery, “Inaugural Exhibition,” Boston, MA 1980 Brooklyn Museum, “American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980,” Brooklyn, NY American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, “Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition 1980,” NY, NY Phoenix Art Museum, “Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980,” Phoenix, AZ SELECTED COLLECTIONS Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Brown University, Providence, RI Colby College, Waterville, ME Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Art and Archaeology—University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA New York Public Library, New York, NY Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Yale University Art Gallery SELECTED AWARDS 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, Painting 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship: Painting 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, NY 1987/1980 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase, NY 1982/1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, Washington, DC 1979/1975 The Artists Foundation, Artist’s Fellowship, MA TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015 Lesley University College of Art and Design (LUCAD), Visiting Artist 2012-2013 Art Institute of Boston, Adjunct Faculty 2003-2010 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Assistant Professor 2006-2010 MassArt/Fine Arts Work Center Low Residency MFA program, Senior Critic 1994-2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Visiting Faculty 1994-1998 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Summer Session, Instructor 1997 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Lecturer in Visual Arts See less