Joan Tallan

Bio

My recent work starts with a series of political prints responding to the presidency of George W. Bush. Weapons, soldiers and destruction make up the imagery.  As a needed change of thought pattern I worked on a set of prints that portray the tranquility,versus the adventure of the beach in Hawaii. The next series  are the “Conflict and Courage” images which were made in tribute to the brave women who protested in Tahir Square. The dynamic prints are woodcuts with  accents of “Chine Colle” and/or stenciled color. I have recently finished a group of images whose impetus was our many visits to the Ohio State Fair. They are filled with the rich variety of images that make up the visual activity of the Fair.  
  Each group of prints express my reaction to the world around me. Sometimes terrible, and at other times glorious, life continues on,  as an artist printmaker I try to document what I experience.

Education

• Alfred University, SUNY, BFA in Ceramic Design
• Wright State University, M of Ed.
• The George Washington University MA in Art Therapy
• Independent Study with Philip Von Raabe, Printmaking, The Ohio State University

Recent Exhibition History

2012

• Curator “Art under Pressure” and “The Columbus Portfolio” at OAL Gallery, April 3 to 28.
• Ohio State Fair, Ohio Arts Council Award for Printmaking, July
• 68TH All Ohio Annual, Zanesville, Ohio July 21 to Sept.26, First Prize for Best Print
• Columbus Ohio, Dresden Invitational, Urban Arts Center, Columbus Ohio Sept to November
• Ohio Print Co-ops Cleveland, Dayton, Cinn, and Columbus, Urban Arts Center Columbus, Ohio
• Ohio Art League Fall Show, Cultural Art Center , Columbus Ohio Oct.
• OOVAR Show At Franklin County Library, Nov to January

2011

• One person show Jewish Community Center, Columbus Ohio, Dec. through Feb.
• 6th Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry OOVAR Juried Show, Nov.5th to Jan.8th
• Art Under Pressure, Phoenix Rising Print making Co-operative Group Show July22 to Aug 28
• Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus Ohio

2010

• Collective Ink, (edited version), Vern Riffe Center lobby, Columbus, Ohio
• Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition Columbus, Ohio
• Annual Kay Smith Printmaking Show at High Street Gallery Dayton, First place
• Grant from Vermont Studio Center for Residency June 2010

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