Joanne Mattera: "Tutto & Silk Road"
"Tutto, a new series begun in 2022, continues the formal themes I have been working with for the past several years: a divided field, strong emphasis on the horizontal, and saturated color. A swipe of the brush from edge to edge allows me to effect chromatic adjacencies that jar, pique, or please the eye.
Tutto, Italian for “everything,” is my way of saying that all the mediums and materials I have worked with over the years are incorporated into this series: encaustic, oil, and acrylic, on canvas, panel, and paper, in sizes and proportions large and small. This is not to say that I am working with a material mishmash, but that I have embraced the entirety of my experience to create discrete works in specific mediums within the conceptual parameters of the series."
- Joanne Mattera, 2022
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Joanne Mattera, "Tutto 18," 2022, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Tutto 20," 2022, encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, $6,400
Joanne Mattera, "Tutto 11," 2022, encaustic on panel, 36 x 36 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Tutto 13," 2022, acrylic on panel, 48 x 40 inches, $14,000
2022 Catalogue
"TUTTO AND RELATED WORKS"
by Joanne Mattera
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Joanne Mattera, "Tutto 14," 2022, acrylic on panel, 48 x 40 inches, $14,000
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Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 484," 2022, encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, $6,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 487," 2022, encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, $6,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 488," 2022, encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, $6,400
"The later works in my longtime series, Silk Road, feature the same formal themes I am exploring now. Transitions are interesting as one idea morphs into another, one series into another. So Tutto will continue with the divided field while Silk Road will double back and resume its initial identity as a series of atmospheric color fields. Works from both series are included in the show with their relationship fully apparent." - JM, 2022
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 425," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 459," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 468," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
"Silk Road is chromatically juicy and compositionally reductive. I refer to it only partly tongue in cheek as “lush minimalism.” Each painting in the ongoing series is a small color field achieved by layers of translucent wax paint applied at right angles. The series was inspired by the shimmery quality of iridescent silk, hence the title, but quickly evolved into more expansive explorations of hue and surface. In plying a richness of paint against the austerity of a (very subtle) grid, I set in motion a small-scale dynamic in which more and less jostle for primacy. - JM, 2018
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 458," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 455," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 462," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 494," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 496," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 456," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 469," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches, $4,400
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 464," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
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Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 495," 2020, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
Joanne Mattera, "Silk Road 428," 2018, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches - SOLD
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ARTIST STATEMENT
“I titled this series Silk Road not only because of the fabric-like shimmer, but because of the way my ideas about the interaction of color and surface travel from painting to painting, a long road of chromatic and textural expression. I would be lying if I said that the natural world didn’t creep into my visual thinking. The morning sky, light on water, sun and shadow, and the crepuscular horizon surely tinge the chromatic consciousness of a painter, even one who is committed to reductive abstraction. Nevertheless, I remain resolute in the idea that the paintings in this exhibition are formal explorations of color, field after field of non-objective thought expressed in paint." - Joanne Mattera
Joanne Mattera reviewed in the press:
Joanne Mattera at Arden Gallery:
"Sheer, luminous, living, wafting color."
—Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, December 4, 2020
"Joanne Mattera’s monochromes exude luscious indulgence.”
—Daniel Kany, Maine Sunday Telegram, December 29, 2013
"Appreciating (Joanne Mattera's) "Silk Road" solely on the basis of its tour-de-force technical achievement would be to miss the richer sphere that the work inhabits. Each painting contains the inherent mystique invoked by the series, which is to say, each piece promises a journey full of visual delights without a specific roadmap. Color on the scale of intimacy that Mattera achieves is a powerful experience.”
—Liz Hager, Venetian Red, February 2010
“Over the years Joanne Mattera has gradually reduced the imagery in her work to finally arrive at this celebration of color and surface.”
—Joseph Walentini, Abstract Art on Line, May 17, 2007
“Joanne Mattera is one of the acknowledged American authorities working in encaustic.”
—Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, Feb. 18, 2007
Joanne Mattera at Arden Gallery:
“Mattera revels in the medium’s stained-glass-like luminosity. She’s a colorist whose principal concern is how tones interact and play off one another . . . Throughout, there’s a sense that light is powering these works.”
—Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, December 10, 2004
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