Joanne Tarlin

Joanne Tarlin is a painter of abstract allegorical landscapes who creates provocative visual atmospheres juxtaposed the luscious colors of a heady scented bouquet of flowers. Her skies are reminiscent of both the 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich and the later work of the English painter JMW Turner, while her flora with their dying blooms and falling petal nod to the Dutch flower painters who symbolized mortality in the style of work known as Vanitas Still Life. For a decade she lived in Los Angeles where she studied and earned her BFA from The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School for Social Research, NY. In the 1990s, Tarlin returned to Massachusetts and opened an art studio at 450 Harrison Avenue, an artists’ community in Boston. She went on to earn her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in 2015.

In 2020, Tarlin moved to Maine where she currently maintains a studio practice.

2015 MFA, Tufts University/School of the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School for Social Research, Los Angeles

1983 Oil painting, Framingham State College

1981-1983 Industrial and environmental design studies, the University of Bridgeport

Select Solo Exhibitions
2022 Sea Changes: Transformations Wanted, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME
2019 Posthumously Blooming, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2017 Left Behind (duo-exhibit), ArtSpace Maynard, Maynard, MA
2016 Roots and the Volga River, Armory Arts Café, Somerville, MA
2015 Flowers of Evil, Thesis Exhibition, The Cyclorama, Boston, MA
2012 Spiritual Energy: Past, Present, and Future, The Chase Family Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2008 Water & Peace, The Student Center Gallery, Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Select Group Shows
2022 Summer Solstice Show, Duo, Interiology Design, Watertown, MA
2022 UMVA Members Summer Show, Portland, ME
2022 Above Us Only Sky, Array Contemporary, Boston, MA
2021 [ON]now Exhibition | Concurrence, CMCA, Virtual
2021 Women in Abstraction, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2020 Missing Maine Landscapes, The Union of Maine Visual Artists, Portland, Virtual Exhibit
2020 AC5, Array Contemporary, Boston, MA
2020 Droplets, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
2020 Lust After, Fountain Street Fine Art, Boston, MA
2020 S|HE, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Art for the Heart, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2019 HUE·MAN·IZE, Harbor Park Gallery, Boston, MA Harbor Park Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 The Art Sa...