JOANNE BROCKLEY

JUNE 13 - JULY 12, 2026

My artwork has always involved combinations of seemly disparate parts melded together for a new experience. Moving to NYC in the early 80s I had a studio at Westbeth. While living in a series of sublets and walking the streets of New York I became infatuated with materials left out on the streets. Each living space I occupied contained visual evidence of a life lived in the layers of paint and wall paper left behind. This became my pallet to cut and combine into sculptural often anthropomorphic structures. Later when I moved to Brooklyn I created a series of larger, site specific sculptural installations also using combination of construction materials and industrial refuse that I saw constantly around me. During all this time I worked on drawings that informed and sometimes documented my sculptural work.I progressively became more interested in the immediacy and freedom to invent imaginary spaces that I could create with mixed media collage in two dimensions. Still my interests remained the same.

Since my move to the Hudson River Valley full time just a few years ago my two dimensional and sculptural assemblage work has continued to be about the images that surround me both real and imagined. Both the beauty of the woods and mountain views and the unseen destructive forces of man and natures creatures big and small. These combinations manifest themselves into windows into an invisible chaotic world. The result at times appears as a surrealistic landscapes and others are glimpses of a bigger invisible picture as if under water or underground.