Joan Aglaia
Joan Aglaia, a New York City artist, creates abstract paintings comprised of several layers achieved through an additive, subtractive and kinetic process. The work expresses both the real and the imaginative blurring the lines between reality and illusion. Emotion and sensory perception work in tandem as each painting is weaved together by spontaneity, precision and interpretation.
Music and poetry are strong underlying influences in Joan Aglaia’s paintings. Mindful of rhythm, dimension and context, she captures the energy and spirit of a particular verse or stanza connecting it to the original subject. The words of Maya Angelou and Rupi Kaur as well as the lyrics and music of Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, Polo & Pan, Poolside, Diana Ross and Soulwax have strongly influenced her paintings. The artists Kathryn Mac, Julie Mehretu, Georgia O’Keefe and Mary Weatherford have also inspired her creative process.
Joan Aglaia earned her BFA in studio art from Colorado College in 2011. After college, she lived in Aspen, Colorado, where she designed hand-painted graphics for a custom ski company, Grizzly Boards, from 2014 - 2016. In 2017, she returned to New York City for graduate school, receiving her MA in Arts Administration from New York University Steinhardt. During that time, she completed her first large-scale mural for …
Joan Aglaia, a New York City artist, creates abstract paintings comprised of several layers achieved through an additive, subtractive and kinetic process. The work expresses both the real and the imaginative blurring the lines between reality and illusion. Emotion and sensory perception work in tandem as each painting is weaved together by spontaneity, precision and interpretation.
Music and poetry are strong underlying influences in Joan Aglaia’s paintings. Mindful of rhythm, dimension and context, she captures the energy and spirit of a particular verse or stanza connecting it to the original subject. The words of Maya Angelou and Rupi Kaur as well as the lyrics and music of Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, Polo & Pan, Poolside, Diana Ross and Soulwax have strongly influenced her paintings. The artists Kathryn Mac, Julie Mehretu, Georgia O’Keefe and Mary Weatherford have also inspired her creative process.
Joan Aglaia earned her BFA in studio art from Colorado College in 2011. After college, she lived in Aspen, Colorado, where she designed hand-painted graphics for a custom ski company, Grizzly Boards, from 2014 - 2016. In 2017, she returned to New York City for graduate school, receiving her MA in Arts Administration from New York University Steinhardt. During that time, she completed her first large-scale mural for the Nu Hotel Brooklyn, New York and held her first solo exhibition in a private space in the Lower East Side. Joan Aglaia recently painted two D’Angelico Guitars to be auctioned off for HeadCount, a national non-profit organization that works with musicians to promote participation in democracy in the United States. Currently, Joan Aglaia is working on commissioned paintings in addition to elaborating her creative concepts into fabrics and apparel.
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