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exhibitions
2022
AOTC, Art on the Corner Gallery, Broadway at 107th Street, July - September 2022
2020
Gallery W83, 150 West 83 St, exhibition titled “Above and Below” with Joshua Benson. January 23 - March 22, 2020
2017
Metropolitan College of New York, financial district; solo exhibition of "Underground" watercolors; May 16, 2017 through mid-August 2017
2016 - 2017
The New York Transit Museum, solo exhibition of "Underground" watercolors; Brooklyn Heights, NY, May 2016 through February 2017
2016
The American Watercolor Society, 149th Annual Exhibition, April, New York; recipient of the Winsor & Newton Award for "Wet Floor"
2015
The National Watercolor Society, juried Members Exhibition, Los Angeles
The Salmagundi Club, New York
2014
"Industrial Beauty" group show, The George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Solo Exhibit "Underground Series" May 20 - June 2, The New School, NYC
Armature Arts Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn; group show by BuskNYC
2013
The National Watercolor Society, 93rd Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibit, New York
The New School, group show, New York
2012
The National Watercolor Society, 92nd Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
The Allied Artists of America, 99th Annual Exhibition, New York City
The Salmagundi Club, New York City
2011
The Salmagundi Club, New York City
2007
"Toys" group show, The Atlantic Gallery, New York City
awards and honors
2016 Recipient of the Winsor & Newton Award for "Wet Floor," exhibited in The American Watercolor Society, 149th Exhibition.
2012 Best in Show, Class exhibit, Salmagundi Club, New York City
press
Watercolor Artist Magazine, October 2015
"Dark Splendors" feature article by John A. Parks on the Underground series
*Hana Alberts, “Moody Noir Watercolors of the Subway: The Subterranean Jungle, “ CurbedNY , July 16, 2013, http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/07/16/moody_noir_watercolors_of_the_subway_checking_in_on_oro_2.php
(accessed July 17, 2013).
*Jowy Romano, “Stunning Subway Watercolors by Joan Iaconetti,” Subway Blog, July 12, 2013, http://subwayartblog.com/2013/07/12/stunning-subway-watercolors-by-joan-iaconetti (accessed July 13, 2013).
Manhattan watercolorist Joan Iaconetti’s first solo exhibit at The New School imagines the mundane, post-graffiti subway as a dark, deliciously sinister world full of vertiginous angles, dripping platforms, swarming riders, all done in layer upon layer of monochromatic watercolor. Her large-scale watercolors made their first appearance here, and were later called “evocative neo-noir” by the Curbed.NY architecture blog.
teaching
Details at https://watercolorNYC.com
Watercolor for Absolute Beginners classes; basic Drawing classes;
intermediate level watercolor workshops, New York City. 2004-present
education
The Art Students League, New York City
The Cooper Union, New York City
Northern Illinois University, MA
The Dayton Art Institute
University of Dayton, BS
about / bio
Paintings in Joan Iaconetti's Underground series have been shown in several national juried exhibits, as well as the New York Transit Museum and the Metropolitan College of New York. Her paintings have been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine and Practique des Arts, a French online artist magazine.
Originally from Racine, Wisconsin, Joan moved to New York in 1980 and began painting in watercolor in 1998. Frustrated by her early instruction, or lack thereof, she was mostly self-taught until studying at the Art Students League in 2011.
She developed and began teaching Watercolor for Absolute Beginners ("the class I wish I'd been able to take") in 2004 at The New School's IRP organization in New York, and began painting seriously a few years later. She continues to teach and paint in her Union Square studio in New York City. Details at https://watercolorNYC.com
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