Joyce Reopel

Joyce Reopel
BornJanuary 21, 1933
Worcester, MA
DiedJanuary 16, 2019
Portsmouth, NH
EducationWorcester Art Museum School; Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Arts, Oxford University
Known forsilver- and goldpoint drawings, paintings and sculpture
MovementBoston Expressionism
SpouseMel Zabarsky
AwardsAmerican Academy of Arts & Letters: Arts & Letters Award; Ford Foundation Grant; National Institute of Arts & Letters (NIAL) Grant; Radcliffe Scholar; Yale-Norfolk Fellowship; Harvard/Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship
Websitehttps://www.joycereopel.com

Joyce Reopel (1933–2019) was an American painter, draughtswoman and sculptor who worked in pencil, aquatint, silver- and goldpoint, and an array of old master media. A Boris Mirski Gallery veteran, from 1959 to 1966,[1] she was known for her refined skills and virtuosity. She was also one of very few women[2][3] in the early group of Boston artists that included fellow artist and husband Mel Zabarsky, , , ], and others who helped overcome Boston's conservative distaste for the avant-garde, occasionally female, and often Jewish artists later classified as Boston expressionists. Unique to New England, Boston Expressionism has had lasting local and national influence, and is now in its third generation.

  1. ^ "Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives". A Finding Aid to the Boris Mirski Gallery Records, 1936-2000, bulk 1945-1972, in the Archives of American Art. Jun 15, 2019.
  2. ^ Collected visions: Women artists at the Bunting Institute, 1961-1986. Cambridge, MA: Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. 1986. ISBN 978-0960177424.
  3. ^ Walkey, Frederick P. (1975). New England Women. Lincoln, MA: Decordova Museum.