TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Joy Barth
The Deep
oil and sand, 2018; 24″h x 36″w
Joy Barth graduated from Indiana University, with a BS in art education, and post-graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon and Rutgers Universities. She served as adjunct staff at Mercer County Community College, and guest lecturer at Brooklyn College, NY, and was the director of the art department of the Titusville Academy in Titusville, for 20 years. She was a finalist for NJ State Teacher of the Year Award for Agencies and Schools for the Handicapped. In addition, she taught at Somerset Art Association in Bedminster, NJ, Artworks in Trenton NJ, and the Arts Council of Princeton. She served as an artist delegate to the Soviet Union in conjunction with the Trenton Area Workshop Association’s artist exchange and exhibition in Moscow, USSR, in 1991.
Her gallery representations include the Gallery of Fine Art Newtown PA; CG Galley, Princeton; Vera Redmond Gallery Philadelphia, PA; Gallery 29, Pittsburgh, PA; DuChamps Gallery, Lambertville, NJ; the Jacob Javits Federal Building NY, the Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA; the Artists Gallery Lambertville, NJ; Gallery 29, Pittsburgh PA; Coryell Gallery; Lambertville NJ; and Gallery 100, Princeton, NJ. Other venues include the Noyes Museum, Oceanville NJ; the NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; the James Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown PA; NJ State Museum; and the Montclair Museum of Art. Barth was an illustrator for the Women’s Newspaper of Princeton, and the designer of “Mae Ling” collaged apparel. Barth’s artwork is included in collections, private and corporate, in the United States and abroad. Her art affiliations include the Roots Artists Collective, Princeton Artists Association, National Association of Women Artists, NY, NY, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton NJ, Trenton Artists Workshop Association, and Hopewell Art Association.
“When I work in the studio my process can take me from a table to an easel or the floor. I experiment with many approaches, often creating sketches, collages, maquettes, sometimes using these techniques in combination with a spontaneous approach, interpreting a piece of music, an interesting mark or splash on the paper. Meditation prior to working in the studio is another way I approach being more receptive to new concepts and is a tool that assists me in stepping aside to let the work create itself instead of forcing outcomes. My work is an attempt to capture the illusive, the transient, a moment in time. Each work is all that my life has been and is and so my approach to art is not so much a conscious inquiry but rather an extracting of what is already bubbling around inside me. Each work is the culmination of a dance between the conscious and the unconscious, a marriage between the known and the unknown, a path into a newly discovered and unknown place.”