Jo-Ann Boback
Artist Statement:
My work is abstract, defined by rich layers of color, bold strokes, and subtle text, and the use of both brush and pallet knife, adding and removing as the work emerges.
Through my work I express pieces of evolving in life. Emotions of daily existence, which are influenced by external forces.
Each stroke, drip, scrape, and layer is both consciously and subconsciously connecting the abstract with reality.
I see my work as a dialogue, a dance between experiences and imagination. Through many strokes and gestures I seek to engage a conversation with the viewer. Perhaps, provoking one to think and feel in a more layered way.
My love of abstract expressionism was greatly influenced by the Masters such as Richter, deKooning, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell. Through their inspiration I face my own limitations and barriers as well as my creative skills. Style develops from your inner self as it relates to your life and I am constantly digging deeper.
My art can take you somewhere, provoke you somehow and yet even bring you a sense of peace. My intent is that the viewer will look at the work and find something that relates to them in a way that they can or cannot define.
My work is abstract, defined by rich layers of color, bold strokes, and subtle text, and the use of both brush and pallet knife, adding and removing as the work emerges.
Through my work I express pieces of evolving in life. Emotions of daily existence, which are influenced by external forces.
Each stroke, drip, scrape, and layer is both consciously and subconsciously connecting the abstract with reality.
I see my work as a dialogue, a dance between experiences and imagination. Through many strokes and gestures I seek to engage a conversation with the viewer. Perhaps, provoking one to think and feel in a more layered way.
My love of abstract expressionism was greatly influenced by the Masters such as Richter, deKooning, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell. Through their inspiration I face my own limitations and barriers as well as my creative skills. Style develops from your inner self as it relates to your life and I am constantly digging deeper.
My art can take you somewhere, provoke you somehow and yet even bring you a sense of peace. My intent is that the viewer will look at the work and find something that relates to them in a way that they can or cannot define.
Artist Bio:
Jo-Ann Boback is an abstract artist and an interior designer, painting and residing in Reading, MA.
She is primarily a self-taught artist with the exception of classes in drawing, still life and sumi calligraphy. Her love for modern European design and the Masters of Modern Art has transcended to the art she produces today.
Jo-Ann exhibits her work at Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA, and Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows and other juried and non-juried group exhibitions. In 2015 and 2017 her work was chosen as part of an international digital presentation of juried works for Art Venice Biennale 3 and Biennale lV Selected Work in Venice, Italy.
In 2017, she became a member of The Corporate Loan Program, at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and proudly has eight corporations enjoying her art. Collected and commissioned work can be seen in homes in the Boston, Suburban Boston, and New Jersey areas.
Her work has caught the attention of media outlets, and in April 2015 the exhibit Presence and Absence at Colo Colo Gallery was reviewed in Artscope Magazine.
She draws inspiration from the raw beauty in nature, music of many genres, extensive travels, color, the legends of the abstract expressionist period, and many of today’s contemporary parallels.
The artist’s approach to the canvas is to explore the space, through the immediacy of light and dark. Beginning with charcoal sets the groundwork, sort of breaking the ice in the relationship. Sweeps and strokes of color, drips and blots are combined with graphite sketching and or writing, sometimes revealing a recognizable influence.
She best explained what compels her passion in her art in a book for one of her recent shows: “Through the inspiration of the postwar artists I face my own limitations and barriers; as well as my creative skills.
The desire to overcome one’s limitations is only magnified by the time spent doing it. Style develops from your inner self as it relates to your life and I am constantly digging deeper.
Jo-Ann Boback is an abstract artist and an interior designer, painting and residing in Reading, MA.
She is primarily a self-taught artist with the exception of classes in drawing, still life and sumi calligraphy. Her love for modern European design and the Masters of Modern Art has transcended to the art she produces today.
Jo-Ann exhibits her work at Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA, and Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows and other juried and non-juried group exhibitions. In 2015 and 2017 her work was chosen as part of an international digital presentation of juried works for Art Venice Biennale 3 and Biennale lV Selected Work in Venice, Italy.
In 2017, she became a member of The Corporate Loan Program, at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and proudly has eight corporations enjoying her art. Collected and commissioned work can be seen in homes in the Boston, Suburban Boston, and New Jersey areas.
Her work has caught the attention of media outlets, and in April 2015 the exhibit Presence and Absence at Colo Colo Gallery was reviewed in Artscope Magazine.
She draws inspiration from the raw beauty in nature, music of many genres, extensive travels, color, the legends of the abstract expressionist period, and many of today’s contemporary parallels.
The artist’s approach to the canvas is to explore the space, through the immediacy of light and dark. Beginning with charcoal sets the groundwork, sort of breaking the ice in the relationship. Sweeps and strokes of color, drips and blots are combined with graphite sketching and or writing, sometimes revealing a recognizable influence.
She best explained what compels her passion in her art in a book for one of her recent shows: “Through the inspiration of the postwar artists I face my own limitations and barriers; as well as my creative skills.
The desire to overcome one’s limitations is only magnified by the time spent doing it. Style develops from your inner self as it relates to your life and I am constantly digging deeper.
