Joan Feierabend Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1943 -

Joan Feierabend was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1943, the youngest of 3 girls. Her early years were spent on a small dairy farm in Red Hook, NY. Her older sisters were excellent students, but she considers her child self a dreamer who drifted into art very early in life. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and began a teaching career immediately after graduation. She received an MFA from Vermont College, Montpelier, VT in 1993. She retired from teaching in 2007. Originally, she focused on figurative work from life, but eventually turned more towards intuitive non-objective decisions. Curious to understand the origins of her instinctive results, she began using a pendulum to guide everything from materials and color to composition. In 2015, armed with years of daily practice using visual references as well as intuitive and dowsed response, she turned to layering paint with random mark-making as prompts for the start of each painterly journey.