Joana Ricou

Past S H O W S

2007

May 2008: Lying Around

"Lying Around", works from the studio are on display at Metamorphose in Pittsburgh PA during May. Opening reception was on June2nd.

May 5th - Art Walk @ Warhol

Artwalk - A Fashion Show Fundraiser
Presented by Y.E.S.! Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 24 6 - 9 p.m.
@ The Andy Warhol Museum

ARTWALK IS... a fusion of art & fashion, a fundraiser, a groovy soiree. A Fashion Show mixed with Art from Local Artists, Designers and Unique Pittsburgh Area Fashion Boutiques. WITH Fashion entertainment, silent auction, beverages, catering by Big Burrito and full access to the Andy Warhol Museum.
Advance Tickets are $65.00 each or $45.00 for Y.E.S.! Pittsburgh Members. Tickets at the door are $75.00 (based on availability).

Several artists will be making frames that will hang along the catwalk, for the models to pose against. The frames will frame the models as they are seen, and frame the artwork on display at the museum from the model's point of view.

GROUP SHOW - "Women's Works" March 2nd - April 20th

Women's Work postcard
709 Penn Gallery at 709 Penn Avenue

Women's Work - a collection of work by women artists Participating artists: Leslie Ansley, Margaret Burley, Susan Constanse, Christiane D, Vanessa German, Stacy Gross, Deborah Hoskings, Jill Hruska, Tavia LaFollette, Monique Kollman Luck, Mary Martin, Joana Ricou, Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer

Presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Department of Education and Community Engagement, in conjunction with She Said: Words from Women event on 3/29/07.

Media sponsor: WDUQ 90.5 FM

For more info, see The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

"The Art of Politics" (Group Show)
@ Pavement, Pittsburgh PA, April

This is the first time I've participated in an art auction and it was a great experience. The space, the shoe store Pavement, was a really great space (Check out their wall paper below, even the walls were really cool). We had a wonderful turn-out too. Good luck Heather!

This event was put together by Kathleen Newman.

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Angles with Stacy Gross, March, @ modernFormations, Pittsburgh PA

This show came about as me and Stacy realized that we share an interest in what can be seen when you focus on a single girl or woman, in a quiet moment, at a certain angle. Stacy paints beautiful small scenes that hint at a further narrative and identity. You can see more of Stacy's work at www.stacyraegross.com. I'm showing a group of pieces on encounters between a girl and an apple (her apple?). The images explore artificial body postures forced into a guise of relaxation, somewhere between anonymous pose and individual portrait.

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2006

Industrially Nude

This show opened in conjunction with the southside works' event 'southside works exposed'. featured artists included pittsburgh nude project, jesse reismeyer, and joana ricou among others. "

At headquarters, 2629 east carson street

2006

"Industrially Nude"

"do not miss the opening of this show in conjunction with the southside works' event 'southside works exposed'. featured artists include pittsburgh nude project, jesse reismeyer, and joana ricou among others. "

At headquarters, 2629 east carson street

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Female Art:
The Outside (SOLO SHOW)

The second installment of the Female Art project was featured, alongside the first, in a solo show at ASH Galleries in June.

Excerpt from the artist statement:
The body awakened, our first experience is not necessarily ourselves nor everything else but our relationship to the outside. Our hand and strength take shape in our understanding as we use it to manipulate and move. In this relationship, we can be agressive, conciliatory, indifferent.. how this translates into my visual journey of the female identity and history comes out in new paintings including Cleopatra and the Peacock.

This show is going to be part of the GetNaked! Series that inaugurated the gallery last year. The opening will feature INOOR, the bellydance troupe and drumming. INOOR will perform at the opening of the show. This time, the dancers will perform improvisationally responding to the music, in the same spirit of the explorations of the paintings. Everyone is invited to join in!...

>> See more info, including pictures of paintings.

ART IN TRANSIT TO DISPLAY IN ARTSPACE 303 GALLERY MAY 18

In addition to brightening Port Authority's buses with their
work, beginning May 18, 2006, artspace 303 will display the work of
artists participating in Art In Transit, a collaborative project with
Port Authority and The Sprout Fund Seed Award Program designed to
celebrate public transit and bring art into more peoples' lives.

In association with the Steel Valley Arts Council, the Homestead gallery artspace 303 will feature the works of the artists, including the original 31 drawings, paintings, and photographs that are displayed in the Port Authority buses. The original pieces, along with brief bios of the artists, can be viewed online at www.artbusonline.com or in Art Guides available at all major Port Authority schedule rack locations.

"Like the staff of artspace 303, we feel that art should be enjoyed by everyone," said Fred Zeleny, coordinator of Art In Transit. "Like public transit, it's an important part of our city's growth, and it should be readily accessible to all."

The gallery, which is positioned on the 53H and 61C bus routes, will have an opening celebration for the gallery's show from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, May 20 featuring many of the artists and a variety of their works relating to public transit. The event is free, and a limited number of copies of the works will be available for sale, a portion of
which will help fund next year's show. The work will be displayed in artspace 303 until May 30, but will continue to be displayed in the buses for another five months.

artspace 303 is an extension of the Steel Valley Arts Council, a non-profit, community arts organization dedicated to preservation, community interaction, dialogue, and emerging artistic thought through rich creative endeavors. The gallery aims to encourage everyone to engage in a neutral space where all thoughts are active, free, and expressive.

"We are excited about collaborating with Art In Transit as a continued expression of our community-minded approach to the arts," said Brian Britza, gallery committee chairperson of artspace 303. "Too many people have a misconception of a gallery as a place that's exclusive and unapproachable to non-artists. We feel this show will
help bring down barriers in regard to perceptions of what a gallery is."

Spring Salon Juried Show at Modern Formations

This show is an annual juried event where visitors vote for the Best of the Show.

"Eve" (left) was awarded second place!

Art in Transit - Take a Bus !

From Art in Transit announcement:


"Sarah" is the piece that will be circulating in Pittsburgh's buses for the next six months! Take a bus to work!

On Friday, April 21st, the Art In Transit project will roll onto the streets -- approximately 900 PAT buses will display pieces from AIT artists, beginning a roughly six-month showtime. At the same time, Art Guides will be available wherever bus schedules can be found, displaying each artist's work and self-description. What's more, the project website, www.artbusonline.com is *already* open to the public, displaying the selected works and available information.

Furthermore, we're happy to announce a very special opening event: in conjunction with Port Authority Transit, The Sprout Fund Seed Award Program, and the PIttsburgh Cultural Trust, the Art In Transit project will have a special "Artbus Opening" on Friday April 21st, from 5Pm - 9Pm. A single bus, loaded with artists and every piece in the show, will be making the Gallery Crawl rounds, providing free rides and gallery excitement to artists and patrons of all sorts. Add on the
fact that our main stop will be an Art In Transit display in the Wood Street Galleries, and it should make for a great night!
WoodStreet Galleries

Artist Residency at ASHGalleries

The second group show in the artist residency at ASH Galleries was themed "A-Head." The paintings "Karen" and "Dave" (detail to the left) participated.

A-HEAD
At ASH Galleries, we'll be having the "A-HEAD" show.
ASH Galleries
5314 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA 15201
For more information > ASH galleries

Female Art:
Into the Dark


"Eve" (detail)

This solo show deals with the beginning of my new body of work about the nature of Female.

Closing reception Friday March 31st, 6 – 8 pm
Dance performance: “Out of the Dark” by Inoor (Karen Hoffman, Erika May and Joana Ricou) at 630 pm.

March 2006
Gallery Hours 10 am – 5 pm
Art Gallery at the University Center at Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave

Getting inspiration from biology, history, anthropology, psychology and dance, this group of work deals with the beginning of the journey of the individual, the awakening of the body, of its instincts, its voice and potential and its parallel with the journey of human consciousness.

This body of work is the first step towards understanding the female identity, starting at the beginning of human life or of human consciousness, at my base, my body. This first moment concerns the coalescing of the individual body, the material biological self, out of the chaotic Whole. From the depth of the undifferentiated, primordial soup, the awakening of a screaming body in the dark, where the self is blind energy of flesh and blood moved entirely by its animal/body instincts. The expression of this archetype and stage comes to life in a series of figurative paintings about the primal self, the awakening of the body in very quiet moments and abstract bioart pieces, based on neurological research on the process of hereditary memory (the biological foundation for instinct) and fear.

This project included a dance performance and a space on-line for discussion, see the Female Art page. Your feed back is very appreciated.

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Artist Residency at ASHGalleries


"Nos 4" (detail)

I was awarded an artist residency for the duration of 2006, with four other artists. During this year we curated several group shows and created a solo show.

February 2006
The first show was on the theme “Down, around, under and through” and was be the first time we come together as a group. I am presenting a new series of paintings Nos that continue the exploration of intimacy and the blurring of identity of the painting "Blue Hours." See flier.

ASH Galleries
5314 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA 15201
For more information > ASH galleries

"MONOCHROMATIC: CONNECT 2"

This show was themed around the colors blue and orange displayed in opposing walls.I showed a piece from the body of work BioArt; this one in tones of blue, entitled "Instinct IV - Deimos".


"Instinct IV - Deimos" (detail)

This piece comes from the body of work of the brazilian neurocientist Prof. Norberto Coimbra on the instinct of fear in mice.

moxieDaDa
4510 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15224
T/W/TR 5-9 pm, F/S 1-730 pm
For more information > www.moxiedada.com

"100% Centennial"


"Sarah" (detail)

Celebrating the first centennial of the College of Fine Arts of Carnegie Mellon University, this exhibit showed salon-style work from alumni of the college for the past one hundred years from emerging artists to artists who went on to change the face of the world!... "Sarah" represented me in the show.

Shows runs: January to April
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery
5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
For more information > Centennial


"Untitled (nails)" (detail)

MOSAIC

The painting "Untitled (Nails)" was shown at the "MOSAIC" events at the Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery. This event is related to women's issues and celebrates the theme "MILESTONES--celebrating the strides made within gender-issues within the last year. MOSAIC is partnering with the Margaret Morrison College to bring Carnegie Mellon'shistory to the discussion as well."

Previous Shows

2005

“Seeing through the left eye, April 2005 (2 person)
University Center Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
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"10' Long", March 2005
The Frame, Carnegie Mellon University
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Kaleidoscope, March 2005
Zebra Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA
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For all shows, see exhibition history.