Joianne Bittle

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Born 1975, Indiana.
Lives and works in New York City.

EDUCATION

1998-1999 Assistantship, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking with minor in Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington
1997 Indiana University Overseas Study Program in Florence, Italy

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 No Man’s Land, Churner and Churner, New York
2010 Preserving Mass Extinction, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas
2008 A Royal Family, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas
2007 Joianne Bittle: A Royal Family, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
2006 Joianne Bittle and Charles Ritchie, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, Conn.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Art By Telephone…Recalled, New York, CNEI, Paris
So Different, So Appealing, 50 Gramercy, New York
Winging It, Carracio Printing Studio, New York
2011 Tableaux Parisiens, The Do Right Hall, Marfa, Texas
A Live Animal, Root Division, San Francisco, California
2010 Entomologia, Observatory Room, Brooklyn
2009 Before & After, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas Rubber Sheets, C.R.E.A.M Projects, Brooklyn
Viridis II, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
2008 Bittle, Knight, Terry, Alexander, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas
2002 Art Handlers, Christies, New York
Crane Street Studios, Long Island City, New York
2001 Art Frenzy, Long Island City Art Frenzy, New York
1999 Winter Exhibition, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
1998 BFA Thesis Show, School of Fine Arts Gallery, H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana
Annual Juried Exhibition, Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana
1997 Group Show, Tabor/Bruce/Puzzello & Associates, Bloomington, Indiana
Printmaking Group Show, School of Fine Arts Gallery, H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana
Creative Activities Award Exhibition, Honors Division House, Bloomington, Indiana

 

LECTURES

2012 “Considering Visual Display, Fabrication and the Institution,” Parson’s New School for Design and Technology, New York
“Thesis Panel Review and Discussion,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Ideas As They Come,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“North American Mammals Restoration Project Panel Discussion,” American Museum of Natural   History, New York
2011 “Tracks and Travels: A Look At Noguchi’s Drawings,” The Noguchi Museum, Long Island, New York
2010 Insects, Naturalists, Dioramas, and World Travels, Observatory Room, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Sunroom Project Space Presents, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
2006 A Royal Family, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, Conn.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Macey, Juliet, “The Very Best of NYC Art,” GO Magazine, April 2011
“Joianne Bittle: No Man’s Land,” New York Magazine, April 2011
Heuer, Megan, “Joianne Bittle: 500 Words,” Artforum, March 2011
2010 Butcher, Sterry, “Bittle diorama shows Marfa as it was, maybe,” The Big Ben Sentinel December 2010Landi, Ann, “Where The Art Happened,” ARTnews, June 2010

 

CATALOGS and PUBLICATIONS

On My Way Gone (New York: Churner and Churner, 2012)
Nicholas Knight, ed., Tableaux Parisians (New York: EponanomyPress, 2011)
Joianne Bittle: Field Companion (New York: self-published, 2011)

  • Portable Landscape: Preserving Mass Extinction, 2010-11
    oil on three panels, mirrors, iron pyrite, gold pigment, graphite, charcoal, acrylic, paper mâché, styrofoam, sand, aqua resin, liquid plastic, wax, feathers, sea urchins, starfish, sea shells, fossil shark teeth, brachiopods, glass, steel, car battery; trailer: 81 x 82 x 144 inches, diorama: 46 x 48 x 36 inches

  • Portable Landscape: Preserving Mass Extinction, 2010-11
    oil on three panels, mirrors, iron pyrite, gold pigment, graphite, charcoal, acrylic, papier mâché, styrofoam, sand, aqua resin, liquid plastic, wax, feathers, sea urchins, starfish, sea shells, fossil shark teeth, brachiopods, glass, steel, car battery; trailer: 81 x 82 x 144 inches, diorama: 46 x 48 x 36 inches

  • High Noon, 2010
    oil and wax on canvas, in two parts
    66 x 80 inches

  • Jackrabbit #4, 2008
    oil and wax on canvas
    30 x 30 inches

  • Jackrabbit #5, 2009
    oil and wax on canvas
    30 x 30 inches

  • Fool’s Gold, 2010
    oil and wax on canvas, in three parts
    66 x 80 inches

  • Moonman I, 2011
    oil, wax, and charcoal on panel
    24 x 24 inches

  • Striped Bark Scorpions: 17, 122, 151, 54, 60, 27, 2010
    scorpions preserved in alcohol, in glass medical jars
    each 5.5 x 2 x 2 inches

  • Striped Bark Scorpion: 27, 2010
    scorpion preserved in alcohol, in glass medical jar
    5.5 x 2 x 2 inches

  • Striped Bark Scorpions: 151, 2010
    scorpion preserved in alcohol, in glass medical jar
    5.5 x 2 x 2 inches

  • d’Avignon, 2010
    oil and wax on canvas
    48 x 66 inches

  • After Life, 2010
    oil on canvas, in two parts
    66 x 66 inches

  • Jackrabbit Reference 1, 2010
    collage

  • Jackrabbit Reference 2, 2010
    collage

  • Jackrabbit Reference 3, 2010
    collage

  • Trilobite (drawing), 2010
    pencil on paper
    16 x 12 inches

  • Brachiopod (drawing), 2010
    pencil on paper
    16 x 12 inches

  • Jackrabbit 2 (drawing), 2008
    pencil on paper
    12 x 16 inches

  • Jackrabbit 3 (drawing), 2008
    pencil on paper
    16 x 12 inches

  • Jewel Beetle (Central View), 2007
    pencil on paper, in four parts
    44 x 90.5 inches

  • Jewel Beetle, 2007
    oil and wax on canvas, in three parts
    54 x 96 inches

  • Dung Beetle, 2005
    oil and wax on canvas
    54 x 54 inches

  • Harlequin Beetle, 2004
    oil and wax on canvas
    54 x 72 inches

  • Goliath Beetle, 2003
    oil and wax on canvas
    54 x 84 inches