Ms.
Duesberry is nationally recognized for her dynamic landscape
paintings. Her canvases are remarkable for their rich and intense
use of color, and for her distinct interest in the geometry of the
various cityscapes and landscapes she interprets. Many of Ms.
Duesberry's paintings, though clearly contemporary, echo such great
modernist masters as John Marin and Milton Avery. Her use of
light, shadow, scale and texture culminates in paintings that are
both visually and emotionally arresting.
Ms. Duesberry divides her time between studios in Denver, Colorado
and Millbrook, New York, and has painted plein-air around the world
for 40 plus years. She began exhibiting in New York City in 1979,
and has since had ten New York solo exhibitions, with recent
retrospectives at the Century Association and Denver Art
Museum. in January 2006, titled
"Joellyn Duesberry: Three Decades of Paint." She has shown widely
around the country, and is represented by seven galleries coast to
coast.
A pivotal point in Ms. Duesberry's career came in 1986 when she was
awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant which enabled her to
work with Richard Diebenkorn. Diebenkorn encouraged her to try
monotype print-making, and since then she has been actively
producing and exhibiting her monotypes along side her plein-air
paintings. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts started "The Covenant of
Seasons" which is in its ninth year of national travel, most
recently at Hotchkiss and Oberlin; in Autumn 2006 it will be shown
at Exeter.
Ms. Duesberry's paintings are in numerous museum, public and private
collections around the country. In 2005, a PBS documentary was made
of Joellyn Duesberry's life, work, and creative process titled
"Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist"
(view excerpt).
Ms.
Duesberry is nationally recognized for her dynamic landscape
paintings. Her canvases are remarkable for their rich and intense
use of color, and for her distinct interest in the geometry of the
various cityscapes and landscapes she interprets. Many of Ms.
Duesberry's paintings, though clearly contemporary, echo such great
modernist masters as John Marin and Milton Avery. Her use of
light, shadow, scale and texture culminates in paintings that are
both visually and emotionally arresting.