Joyce Weinstein

A highly respected New York artist who has been in numerous national and international exhibitions, Joyce Weinstein creates dynamic works in which abstraction obscures hints of the natural world.  Nature is most apparent in her use of light, which she creates using a combination of techniques: washes, impasto, and contrasts of texture and hue. 

Weinstein uncovers dynamic balances among these opposites, so that her work achieves a fine equilibrium of both spontaneity and control. Karen Wilkin states in the Partisan Review, “Weinstein is capable of marvelous, zany passages: scribbles, spots and scratches of color that melt into the ground and then pull loose.  These explosive passages look spontaneous…as though everything simply found its proper place without effort.”  As Weinstein says these works are characterized by a “complicated simplicity” intensified though tension and liquidity, refinement and muscularity, and moody hues and fiery colors.

Joyce Weinstein was born in New York City in 1931, and she studied at both the City College of New York and the Arts Students League.  At the Arts Students League, she met Stanley Boxer, whom she would later marry.  Her first solo exhibition was at the Perdalma Gallery, New York in 1953 and she would go on to have a series of solo exhibitions at the gallery throughout the 1950s.  Weinstein has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions in Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Naples, Florida, Canada, and Germany.  Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Steinhardt Conservatory; New York Cultural Center Museum; Pace University Art Gallery, New York; Queens College, New York; the Queens Museum, New York; the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; the Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, Michigan; the Edmonton Art Museum, Canada; the Centro de Creacio Contemporia, Barcelona; the Cologne Art Fair, Germany, among others. 

Weinstein’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; the Hines Collection, Boston; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia; the Queens Museum, New York; the Edmonton Museum, Canada; the Centre de Creacio Contemporaria Museum, Barcelona; among many others.

Joyce Weinstein is the recipient of the Lambert Fund Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia in addition to many others.