by Margaret Failoni

Humor and intelligence join in her craft, making native New Yorker Joan Hall an artist's artist much admired by collectors and art institutions alike. Her work has appeared on covers of Time Magazine, The New York Times and numerous other publications.

Starting at an early age, Hall experimented with what the New York City cultural scene had to offer growing young talent, wetting her appetite in community theater, costume and set design before pioneering in collage and assemblage.

An avid traveler, Hall's curiosity and inquisitive eye have been in the forefront of her work. Hall's collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums world wide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She has been commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture, exhibit and conduct workshops in France, India and Brazil and most recently, at the National Art's Club in New York. The multi faceted artist has been awarded a United States State Department Cultural Grant to come to Mexico to train teachers to teach recycling to children by creating art, using found objects and scrap images from magazines.

Hall's past exhibitions at the Interseccion Gallery presented superb collages with the San Miguel de Allende Parroquia as the main theme. This series, augmented with additional works, had successfully traveled to Mexico City and New York. Once again, we are looking forward to presenting the artist's most recent oeuvre, a tongue-in-cheek compendium of "foot notes" on the world we are living in.

Her current Strings Attached series at the Galería Intersección Arte Contemporáneo in the Fábrica La Aurora, opening on February 3, is a spin on old fashioned embroidery with a cutting edge.

Also known for her books of poetry, Journey to Somewhere and Behind My Mind (available on Amazon), Joan will be reading her poetry at the P&P Café's showcase on Wednesday, March 14 at Café Murmullo, Ancha de San Antonio 24 from 5 to 6 pm.

www.joanhallcollage.com

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