Bio / CV

Bio

Artist Information

Raised in the rolling Palouse hills of Washington State, Joann Doneen was trained by noted artist and teacher, Herman Keyes. This “master/student relationship” empowered her to actualize the artist’s life and to move to Philadelphia to continue her formal education at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Thoroughly grounded in the traditional craft of figure drawing and old master techniques, Doneen’s artistic sensibility gradually evolved to non-representational imagery. During her four years at PAFA, she was awarded many prizes, among them the coveted Morris Blackburn Landscape Prize and the prestigious Thouron Prize. Doneen has appeared in group exhibitions in Florence (Exhibition of Abstract Work by Four American Women) and Venice (International Invitational), Italy.

Painting Information

Doneen creates textural immediacy through the use of oils, acrylics, encaustic, marble dust, and sand. Her technique is best characterized as the spontaneous manipulation and discovery of surface and materials on the traditional supports of canvas and wood. The paintings are inspired by the power, vividness and poignancy of nature. The resulting “landscapes” reflect a clarity that transcends the boundary between outer and inner environment. In sculptured paintings that range from hand held to wall size, Doneen’s intimate marks express cracked earth crust, a serene and distant crest of hill, or the wandering black sketch lines of river and wind. The artist makes use of frontal and aerial perspectives; translucency and mirrored imagery reveal the focus of horizon line that steadies, and then gives way to spatial ambiguities.

CV

Solo Exhibitions

2022 - MUSE Gallery, This Very Place, Philadelphia, PA

2018 - Twenty-Two Gallery, The Intimate Eye, Philadelphia, PA

2016 - Twenty-Two Gallery, Illusory Display, Philadelphia, PA

2014 - Twenty-Two Gallery, Fields of Stillness, Philadelphia, PA

2009 - Hunterdon Museum of Art, Juried Group Exhibition, Clinton, NJ 

2007 - New York PAFA Alumni Club, Inaugural Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York

2006 - Main Line Unitarian Church, Fireside Gallery, Moon and Grass, Devon, PA

2005 - Third Street Gallery, Earth Gesture, Philadelphia, PA

2002 - Multiple Choice Gallery, Montgomery County Community College, Power of Place, Blue Bell, PA  

2002 - Brooke Farm Gallery, Water and Wind, Glen Gardner, NJ

1997- Steam Roller Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Frenchtown, NJ


International Exhibitions

2005* - Art Point-Black Gallery, Invitational “ASTRAZIONE Made in U.S.A.”

Federico Napoli, art critic, Florence, Italy

2005* - International Invitational Exhibition, Fusion Calendar, Korea

2005 - Fumihiko Enokido Invitational Exhibition, Fusion Calendar, Shizuoka, Japan 

2001* - Galleria d’Arte San Vitale, International Invitational, Venice, Italy

2000* - Art Point-Black Gallery, Invitational “ASTRAZIONE Made in U.S.A.”

Exhibition of Abstract Work by American Women, Florence, Italy


Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 - Agora Gallery, Elemental Realms, New York City, NY 

2011 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Environmental Perspectives, A Landscape Show in Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

2011 - Center for Contemporary Art, Annual Juried Exhibit, David Shevlio, Juror, Bedminster, NJ

2009 - Hunterdon Museum of Art, Juried Group Exhibition, Clinton, NJ 

2007 - New York PAFA Alumni Club, Inaugural Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York 2007* 2007* - Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Foundation, Invitational Exhibition, Prallsville Mill Gallery, Stockton, New Jersey.

2007 - Third Street Gallery, two-person show, Philadelphia, PA

2007 - Pfenninger Gallery, New Work, Lancaster, PA

2004 - Hunterdon Museum of Art, Extreme Landscape, Donna Gustafson, Curator, Clinton NJ

2003 - Third Street Gallery, Looking Out/Looking In, two-person show, Philadelphia, PA

2002 - Mulberry Art Studios East Gallery, Inbound, Lancaster, PA

2002 - Third Street Gallery, New Members’ Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2002 - Bryn Mawr Art Show, Group Exhibition, Bryn Mawr, PA

2002 - Widener Univ. Art Gallery, Spring Juried Exhibition, Anne R. Fabbri, Juror, Chester, PA

2001 - Noyes Museum of Art, Artists Equity 52nd Anniversary Juried Exhibition, 

Tim Hawkesworth, Juror, Oceanville, NJ

2001 - New Arts Program, Inc. Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, Kutztown, PA

2001 - Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2001 Members’ Exhibition, Carol Rosen, Curator, Clinton, NJ

2001 - Banana Factory, Small Works, George Sorrels, Curator, Bethlehem, PA

2000 - Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2000 Members’ Exhibition, Clinton, NJ

2000 - Bryn Mawr Art Show, Group Exhibition, Bryn Mawr, PA

1999 - American College, Artists Equity Millennial Exhibition, Bryn Mawr, PA

1999 - Villanova University, Between Nature and Spirit, three-person show, Villanova, PA

1999 - Knights Gallery of Palmerton, Walrus Talk Exhibition, Palmerton, PA

1999 - Plastic Club, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fellowship Spring Show,

Philadelphia, PA 

1994 - Rittenhouse Square, Rittenhouse Fine Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA

1993 - Stony Brook Gallery, Artists Take the Plunge, Pennington, NJ

1991 - The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Cresson Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA


Awards and Honors

2017 - 2nd Place Prize, Sketch Club, Absolutely Abstract, Juried by Kassam Amoudi, Philadelphia, PA

2002 - Honorable Mention, Artists Equity Spring Juried Exhibition, Widener University

2002 - Bally’s Park Place Award, Noyes Museum of Art

1994 - Best of Show in Oil, Rittenhouse Fine Arts Festival

1993 - Juror’s Choice Award, Stony Brook Gallery

1991 - Morris Blackburn Landscape Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

1991 - Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

1990 - Thouron Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

1987–90 - Scholarship Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Publications and Media

2002 - Philadelphia Daily News, Segue into Summer, Anne R. Fabbri

2002 - Art Matters, Review of Noyes Museum Exhibition

2000 - Toscana TV, Florence, Italy, Interview

1999 - Delaware County Daily Times, Landscape of Inner Spirit, article

1999 - Philadelphia Inquirer, The Arts, review: Victoria Donahue

1992 - Trenton Times, Artists Take the Plunge, review: Kathy Viksjo

Education

1991 - The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Graduate, Philadelphia, PA

1982 - Art Students League, New York, NY

1978 - Fortwright College, Bachelor of Arts, Spokane, WA

Student of artist Herman Keys

Professional Affiliations
MUSE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

*Denotes catalog