Joanne Greenbaum in Berlin

Joanne Greenbaum Studio View, 2012 (courtesy of the artist)
Joanne Greenbaum Studio View, 2012 (courtesy of the artist)

Ali Fitzgerald visits the Berlin studio of painter Joanne Greenbaum.

Fitzgerald writes that "a radiant accessibility... has become a hallmark of Greenbaum’s expansive yet decidedly un-monumental (at least in scale) career. Her smaller works are instinctual and inviting, equipped with fluid baroque shimmers and flourishes that hint at bodily rapture and painterly automatism... She wields a vast visual glossary, with her works sometimes reading like punchy, assured, confrontational statements and at other times ballooning quietly across the page like slow-capture botanical animation, never arriving at any kind of declaration. Gestures grow and shift on an exposed plane, framed by a soft and immediate architecture."