Joan Reutershan
Joan Reutershan makes boldly colored collage and assemblage paintings, taking cues from the cacophonous Brooklyn streets she traverses every day.
Her urban themes are the contemporary tensions between chaos and design, digitality and materiality, and sense and nonsense. She received her BFA summa cum laude from Hunter College, City University of New York, where she was a Kossak Painting Fellow. She earned an MA Degree in Art History, also from Hunter College.
Digi-Dog, Powered by the Cloud, but Chased out of Town by the People, 2021, Acrylic, marker,construction netting, charcoal, artist tape, reflective foils, fluorescent plexiglas sample squares, police caution tape, subway tape on archival digital print on canvas on cradled board, 33 x 22 x 3 inches on canvas, ca. 40 x 34 x 3 inches on wall
Reutershan is represented by Office Space Gallery SLC, and her work was featured with the OSG SLC at Art Fair 14C in Jersey City in 2022 and 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include BKNY Street View at One River School of Art and Design (Woodbury, NY), with a redux at the Mariboe Gallery/ Swig Arts Center (Hightstown, NJ). Prior one-person venues include the Florida School of the Arts Main Gallery (Palatka, FL), and Gallery Three at A.R.T. New York (Brooklyn, NY). She frequently exhibits in group shows--The Box Factory Gallery (Bushwick/Ridgewood, NY), 550 Gallery (Long Island City, NY), and online with Artsy through Odetta Digital Gallery/ Shim Art Network. Reutershan lives in Brooklyn and works in Long Island City, NY.
#612, 2017, Acrylic, polymer pieces, marker and silkscreen ink on canvas , 15 x 20 inches
“Making art is a form of epistemology for me, it is a way I explore the 21st Century urban environment--our edgy cauldron of discrepancies, contradictions, but also of transformation. If the downtown sky is colonized by big real estate, “on the ground” there is plenty of alternative world building in which I actively participate, and which I consider research for my art work.”
#921.6, 2018/2020, Acrylic, marker and silkscreen ink on shaped, unstretched canvas, ca 20 x 17 inches
#335: Myrtle Ave (Brooklyn), 2013, Acrylic on paper mounted on plexiglass, 18 x 14 inches