Joan Desmond - Fine Art - About the Artist

2008

The 10th International Collage Exhibition-Exchange
April 2008 at The Real Tart (Taranaki Art) Gallery
19 Egmont St, New Plymouth, New Zealand

6TH INTERNATIONAL MINIART EXCHANGE BRAZIL
Xico Stockinger Gallery in the House of Culture Mario Quintana,
Porto Alegre, Brazil
promoted by the Museum of Contemporary Art and sponsored by
the Secretary of Culture of the State of Rio Grande do Sul
May 8th to June 29th 2008

Sustaining Our Environment Postcard Exhibition.
During the Women's Caucus for Art and
College Art Association Annual Conferences.
February 22-25, 2008. Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas.

2007

The Philosophy Day, group show
Art Space Vlasis Art.Com
Veroias 6, Ano Ladadkia
Thessaloniki 54625, Greece
November 21 -December 1, 2007

1st MoSa Collection Exhibition, group show,
Museum of Small Arts Collections, MoSa Art Gallery
4 Jalan 7/74, Section 7, Shah Alam, 40000 Malaysia
November 1 -15, 2007

CIRCA Art Magazine
Postcard Competition 2007
Online at: http://www.recirca.com/artnews/552/2.shtml

Visual Arts Festival 2007
Juried Small Works Exhibition, group show
June 28- August 26
Bakersfield Museum of Art
Bakersfield, California
Juror – Dan Goozeé

Exhibition Summary

Joan’s work is in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. In 1993 one of her paintings was given a Bakersfield Museum of Art Board of Directors' Purchase Award for inclusion into the permanent collection of the museum.
She has participated in 32 group exhibitions & juried shows, primarily in California including:

Group Exhibitions at:
Bakersfield College, Wyley and May Louise Jones Gallery -Faculty Art Exhibitions;
CSUB, Todd Madigan Gallery -Seven Artists -Alumni Show -Faculty Art Exhibitions;
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Cunningham Gallery -Kern County Visual Arts Festival Juried Exhibitions -Artists' Guild Exhibitions -Fine Art and Flowers;
Art Center -Fall National Competition;
Modesto Junior College, Art Gallery;
Stockton Office, California Department of Transportation;
Bank of Stockdale, Bakersfield -Artists' Guild Exhibition;
Rio Bravo Resort, Bakersfield -Artists' Guild Exhibition.

Solo exhibitions at:
Bakersfield Museum of Art, foyer;
Arts Council of Kern, foyer.

Drawings published in the literary journals: Orpheus 1985, Black Bear Review 1989, Metamorphoses 2006

Poetry published in: Orpheus 1999, Black Bear Review 1989 & 2000, L’Apache 1986,
The Whole Writers Catalog, Metamorphoses 2006