jOAN FFOLLIOTT

JUNE 13 - JULY 12, 2026

I work across collage, assemblage, printmaking, and encaustic. My process is intuitive and improvisational, exploring the tension between structure and disruption through layered materials, fragmented imagery, and formal abstraction. Drawn to the tactile and associative language of materials, I investigate accumulation, erasure, rhythm, and spatial instability, allowing compositions to emerge through response rather than predetermined outcome.

In works such as the She in Pieces collages, fractured black forms, cut-paper edges, and rhythmic interruptions create unstable structures that shift between figure and field, containment and release. Constructed from fragments of a large-scale woodblock print, these works extend my interest in repetition, rupture, and transformation, using the physical act of cutting and reassembling to generate new spatial and psychological relationships. The collages reflect my interest in how fragmentation can produce its own internal order — how asymmetry, interruption, and accumulated marks create a charged visual presence that is both visceral and open-ended.

For me, art is a constructed field of stimuli — an arrangement of material, gesture, color, and form that creates a relationship between maker, medium, and viewer. My practice is rooted in the physical dialogue of process: cutting, layering, embedding, obscuring, and revealing. Meaning is not illustrated, but discovered through material encounter and transformation, inviting viewers into an experience that is perceptual, tactile, and emotionally resonant.