STATEMENT
In my series of paper dress collages, I use silk fabric, wallpaper, book pages in French and English from the 1900s, rice, and origami papers, comics, and antique sheet music to create works of art that embody female spirits. Each dress has a unique energy derived from its texts and subtle colorations.
BIOGRAPHY
JoAnne McFarland is an artist, poet, and independent curator. She is the Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Brooklyn, NY. Artpoetica exhibits works at the intersection of words, visual art, performance, and installation. She is the former Exhibitions Director of A.I.R. Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn, founded in 1972 as the first gallery specifically for women artists. McFarland’s artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among many others. Her latest poetry collections include American Graphic, Green Linden Press 2024; A Domestic Lookbook and Pullman, Grid Books 2024 and 2023; and Identifying the Body, the Word Works, 2018. McFarland’s multi–faceted practice is grounded in her belief that violence and creativity are opposites: each act of making thwarts violence’s aim to destroy.
JoAnne McFarland’s Website
