In 2018, TLP member Joan Effertz participated in the Bridges Not Walls cultural art exchange. Tiger Lily Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, was represented by Joan, where she printed at Taller de Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana.

The artist’s work is rooted in a fascination with both the affinities and the differences among people, as well as in the enduring relationship between humanity and the earth. These concerns run as consistent threads throughout his practice. Having lived and traveled extensively across the United States and Europe from childhood, he grew within an environment shaped by ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity, together with the breadth of varying landscapes. This early exposure profoundly influenced his worldview and artistic sensibility.

Trained under Clare Romano—internationally renowned printmaker and author—he embraced her lesson that content must take precedence over technique. As a printmaker, he continues in this lineage, ensuring that message and meaning lead the process of creation.

Employing media and formal elements as a writer employs language, he constructs images that engage the viewer through color, composition, and atmosphere. His intention is that audiences encounter each work as a unified whole, where meaning resides in the totality of its aesthetic presence. By posing questions on the nature of humanity, our connections with one another, and our relationship to the earth, his work provokes awareness, reflection, and the possibility of action.

Bio

Joan Effertz was born in El Paso, Texas. Her father was a commissioned United States Army officer, and her mother was a classically trained musician. She spent her youth living in and traveling all over the United States and Germany. Throughout her youth she took every opportunity to study and practice art. Effertz received a B.A. in visual arts and psychology from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. From the University of Cincinnati, college of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning, she received an M. Ed. in art education. Pratt Institute, New York City, granted her an M.F.A. in printmaking. While there Joan was taught and mentored by Clare Romano, internationally recognized printmaker and author.

Effertz’s art is found in numerous museums and institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cincinnati Art Museum and l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, France. She has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and is included in corporate and private collections. Effertz taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Public Schools and other venues. Joan is a member of Tiger Lily Press where she was director and board member.

During November and December, 2018 she was an artist participant in the Bridges Not Walls program in Havana, Cuba. There she printed at Taller de Experimental de Grafica as artist-in – residence. The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, which she has walked many times, increasing informs Joan’s art.

Time

Friday, August 30, 2019 AT 5 PM – 8 PM

Location

The Annex Gallery
1310 Pendleton Street
Cincinnati Ohio
45205

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