Joan Moment

Joan Moment
Born1938
Sellersville, Pennsylvania, US
EducationUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, University of Connecticut, Yale School of Nursing
Known forPainting, mixed media, painted reliefs
SpouseDavid M. Roth
AwardsRockefeller Foundation
WebsiteJoan Moment
Joan Moment, Heavenly Bodies Surrounded by Notables, acrylic, latex enamel and gauze on canvas, 72" x 84", 1983.

Joan Moment (born 1938) is an American painter based in Northern California.[1][2][3] She emerged from the 1960s Northern California Funk art movement[4][5] and gained attention when the Whitney Museum of American Art Curator Marcia Tucker selected her for the 1973 Biennial and for a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1974.[6][7] Moment is known for process-oriented paintings that employ non-traditional materials and techniques evoking vital energies (biological, sexual, cosmic) conveyed through archetypal iconography.[8][9][10] Though briefly aligned with Funk—which was often defined by ribald humor and irreverence toward art-world pretensions—her work diverged by the mid-1970s, fusing abstraction and figuration in paintings that writers compared to prehistoric and tribal art.[11][12][5][7] Critic Victoria Dalkey wrote that Moment's methods combined chance and improvisation to address "forces embodied in a universe too large for us to comprehend, as well as the ... fragility and transience of the material world."[13]

In addition to the Whitney, Moment has exhibited at the Oakland Museum, Crocker Art Museum and Long Beach Museum of Art.[14][15][16] Her work belongs to the public art collections of the Crocker and Oakland Museums, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the City of Sacramento, among others.[5][17][18][19] She lives in Sacramento and is professor emerita at California State University, Sacramento.[20]

  1. ^ Dalkey, Victoria. "Circular Logic: Joan Moment's Works Take on a New Shape," Sacramento Bee, October 29, 1989, p. 16, 24.
  2. ^ Olivant, David. "Joan Moment at JayJay and LIMN Galleries," Squarecylinder, September 7, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  3. ^ Baker, Kenneth. "Abstraction has its Moment," San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  4. ^ Couzens, Julia. "Beyond Funk," Squarecylinder, September 9, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Weidenbaum, Marc. "A Moment in Time," Sactown Magazine, October/November 2013, p. 91–6. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  6. ^ Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Biennial 1973, Exhibitions. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Tucker, Marcia. Joan Moment, New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1974. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  8. ^ Van Proyen, Mark. "Seeking a Primordial Form," Artweek, December 21, 1985.
  9. ^ Paglia, Michael. "Joan Moment and Monroe Hodder Get the Havu Gallery Off to a Running Start in 2011," Westword, January 11, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  10. ^ Porges, Maria. "Joan Moment: Bluer Than Blue," Numinous: The Paintings of Joan Moment, Sacramento, CA: JayJay Gallery, 2013.
  11. ^ Linhares, Phil. "Interview: Joan Moment," Currant, February–March 1976.
  12. ^ Roth, David M. "Sacramento Rising: California's Capitol, A Longtime Artistic Hub Has Finally Come Into Its Own," Art Ltd., September/October 2008, p. S10.
  13. ^ Dalkey, Victoria. "Once and Future Light: Patterns and Connections in 'Aerial Luminations,'" Sacramento Bee, May 21, 2006.
  14. ^ Linhares, Phil. From the Studio: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, 20 California Artists, Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1992.
  15. ^ Clisby Roger D. Joan Moment, Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 1981.
  16. ^ Muchnic, Suzanne. "Drawing By California Painters," Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1982.
  17. ^ VanAirsdale, S.T. "The Art of the Matter," Sactown Magazine, June/July 2015, p. 77–87. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  18. ^ Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. "New Flavors: Collected at the Candy Store – Selections from the Manetti Shrem Museum." Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  19. ^ City of Sacramento. "Joan Moment, A Fragment of the Universe, Programs, Arts + Culture. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  20. ^ Wetterstrom, Sydney. "Joan Moment," Selected Works from the Sacramento State Art Collection, Sacramento, CA: California State University, Sacramento, 2017, p. 15–6.