About The Artist

Joan Burger Siem joanburgersiemart.com joansiem@yahoo.com Exhibits 2020 Keep Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Juried exhibit, Feb. 2020 25th Arts North International, Annual International Juried Exhibit, Hopkins Center For The Arts, MN, Jan.-Feb 2020 2019 “Vignette Art Fair 2019”, Texas Juried Exhibit, The Women’s Museum Building, Dallas, April 2019 “2019 Small Works International Juried Exhibit”, SangerGallery, Key West, FL., April 2019 “The 22 Annual Rio Brazos National Juried Art Exhibit, Texas, April 2019 5th “Enter Into Art International Installations”, Invitational, Cologne, Bonn, Municipal Museum, Germany, Feb. 10 - June 27, 2019, “Menagerie-Wild and Wonderful”, National Juried exhibition, The Contemporary Art Exchange, Washington, NC, 2019 ARC Gallery, Chicago IL, “His-ter-ee-uh”, International Juried Exhibit, March 2019 32nd Annual “Women’s Work Show 2019”, International juried Exhibit,Woodstock Il, March 1 - April 14,2019 Artexpo New York 2019, April 4-7, 2019, NYC Published in “Spotlight Magazine”, March/April, 2019 Shibuya Station Exhibition, March 2019, Tokyo, Japan Gallery 104, 373 Broadway, New York, NY, “Texture” Exhibit, Feb. 7 - Feb. 28, 2019 24th Arts in Harmony 2019 Annual International Juried Show, Hopkins Center For The Arts, MN, Jan - Feb. 2019. Award winner. Bolton Davis Gallery, Alexandria. LA, National Juried Exhibit, “The Annual 5x5x5 Show” Sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts, Nov. 2018-Feb. 2019 2017 - 2018 Gallery 104, 373 Broadway, New York, NY, curated group show, “The Next Step” Nov. 29 - Dec. 31, 2018 Art League of Hilton Head, 6th National Juried Exhibit, Dec. 4 - Dec. 29, 2018, Honorable Mention winner Art Benicia Gallery, California, “Botanical Lore”, National Juried exhibition, Nov 10 -Dec. 21, 2018 Hugh Mc Peck Gallery, Anchorage, AK, 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition. Oct. 18 - Nov. 9, 2018 Attleboro Art Museum,Mass. National Juried exhibit “Three” June-July 2018, “Juror’s Award” National Juried exhibit,Harbor Group International Gallery, Norfolk VA,“Tiny But Mighty” small 3D art, May-June 2018 46th International Juried Exhibition, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art,TX, May, 2018, Awarded “Best of Show” and “The Mayor’s Award” International Juried exhibit, “Freedom-An Artistic Interpretation” Belskie Museum of Art, NJ, March 2018 National Juried Competition,”Material”, exhibited at Harbor Group International Gallery, Norfolk, VA. 2018 International Juried Competition, “Small Works, Big Talent”, exhibited at Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach,CA 2017 2nd Annual Juried National Competition Exhibit, Conroe TX, “Finalist award”. 2017 International Juried competition, World Citizen Artists, Paris. “Finalist Award” 2017 Art in Embassies exhibit, U.S. Embassy, Myanmar (Burma) 2017 -2018 Art in Embassies exhibit, U.S.Embassy Kuwait, 2015 - 2016 BFA Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., Painting MFA San Jose State University, Calif., Painting MA, Stanford University Artist Statement What unifies the painting process for me is the mood and psychological space that the work is intended to occupy. This gives direction to the visual problem solving , which could take unexpected paths. I work with great affection for the solutions that come about through judgement as well as accepting those that arrive as gifts. It’s a balance between intent and leaving space for a little magic.This way the work can exceed, and go beyond, the original intent, and the painting starts to “give back”, opening for new solutions, unlimited by preconceived notions, opened to dialogue in the process.