About - Joan Levy Hepburn

EDUCATION

1989 Kansas City Art Institute, Graduate Studies Program - Taos, New Mexico
1974 - 76 Kansas City Art Institute, B.F.A. Painting, (Bowan Drawing Award) - Kansas City, Missouri
1971 Rhode Island School of Design, Pre-College Program - Providence, Rhode Island
1969 - 97 Willem de Kooning, Private Mentor - Easthampton, Long Island, New York
1968 - 72 Buxton School - Williamstown, Massachusetts
1976 - 2002 Dave Van Ronk, Private Mentor - Greenwich Village, New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015 A Ballet: "The Pool of Memory" - concept, 40' stage backdrop, costumes -
CT Ballet Summer Dance Caravan - a collaboration with CT Ballet (choreography & dancers), Joe Bouchard (music)

2015 Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, "Water, Water, Paean to a Vanishing Resource"

2014 Hiestand Galleries at Miami University, "Streams" solo exhibition - Oxford, Ohio

2014 Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, "Streams" solo exhibition - Groton, Connecticut

2012 The Art Place at Yale Physicians Building, featured artist exhibition - New Haven, Connecticut

2011 Mass Audubon Habitat, "Forest Life" solo exhibition - Belmont, Massachusetts

2011 The Gilbert Gallery at Miss Porters School, solo exhibition - Farmington, Connecticut

2011 The Art Place at Yale Physicians Building, featured artist exhibition - New Haven, Connecticut

2010 New London Railroad Station, "Land Alive" solo exhibition - New London, Connecticut

2010 The Art Place at Yale Physicians Building, featured artist exhibition - New Haven, Connecticut

2010 St. Philips Artist Guild Juried Exhibition, "H2O" group - Norwalk, Connecticut

2010 Hygienic Art Galleries, "Gesture - Making the Mark" select group - New London, Connecticut

2009 ADAA Art Show at Park Ave Armory, Allan Stone Gallery Booth - New York City, New York

2009 Carriage Barn Art Center, "Dem Bones" select group - New Canaan, Connecticut

2008 Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 Art Fair , Allan Stone Gallery Booth - Miami Beach, Florida

2008 Allan Stone Gallery, "Talent" group exhibition - New York City, New York

2007 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, "Putting the U Back in Curator" - Kansas City, Missouri

2004 Allan Stone Gallery, "Group" select group - New York City, New York

2003 Bushnell Center for Performing Arts, "The American Landscape" solo exhibition - Hartford, CT

1999 Allan Stone Gallery, "Fruits, Flowers, Skies & Pies" select group - New York City, New York

1998 Allan Stone Gallery, "Talent" group exhibition - New York City, New York

1996 Allan Stone Gallery, "Talent" group exhibition - New York City, New York

1996 Virginia Lynch Gallery, "Contemporary Landscape" - Tiverton, Rhode Island

1995 Allan Stone Gallery, "Talent" group exhibition - New York City, New York

1995 Virginia Lynch Gallery, "2 Artists" - Tiverton, Rhode Island

1992 Legislative Offices, solo exhibition - Hartford, Connecticut

1991 C. Grimaldis Gallery, "Perceptual Landscape Painting" - Baltimore, Maryland

1991 Connecticut State Treasury , "Solo Exhibition of 60 works" - Hartford, Connecticut

1991 Governor's Office, solo exhibition - Hartford, Connecticut

1991 Elaine Benson Gallery, "New Generation" - Bridgehampton, New York

1988 Ward Nasse Gallery, "The Artists' Choice" award exhibition - New York City, New York

1982 Elaine Benson Gallery, "Elaine de Kooning's Inadvertent Collection" - Bridgehampton, New York

1981 Paul Mellon Arts Center, solo exhibition - Wallingford, Connecticut

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The September 11 Memorial Museum - New York City, New York
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art - Kansas City, Missouri
The Yale Peabody Museum - New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University Physicians Building - New Haven, Connecticut
The Connecticut State Treasury - Hartford, Connecticut
H&R Block - Kansas City, Missouri
United Aluminum Corporation - North Haven, Connecticut
The Cohn Collection - New Haven, Connecticut
The Cohen Collection - London, England
The New Haven Arts Council - New Haven, Connecticut
The Meriden/Wallingford Hospital - Wallingford, Connecticut
The Mable Dodge House - Taos, New Mexico
The Allan and Clare Stone Collection - Purchase, New York
The Anthony Harvey Estate
The Nouritza Matossian Collection - London, England
The Elaine de Kooning Collection
The Willem de Kooning Estate
The Katharine Hepburn Estate
The Harry Belafonte Collection
The Dave Van Ronk Estate
and many other corporate and private collections

LECTURES

2022 - "INTERSECTIONS" - The crossover disciplines of Painting & Music understood through the structures of Color and Tone, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

2021 - "Musings and Inspiration: Joan Levy Hepburn and Richard Shiff on de Kooning" - A livestream talk from the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA during the Soutine / de Kooning exhibition

2020 - “De Kooning CONVERSATIONS” - A talk with Joan Levy Hepburn and Richard Shiff, NYU Law Library, NY, NY, Sponsored by The Willem de Kooning Foundation

2019 - "Intersections" The Honors College at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
with visual artist Joan Levy Hepburn & Joe Bouchard (Founding bassist of Blue Oyster Cult)
FALL semester

2019 - "Intersections" The Honors College at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York with visual artist Joan Levy Hepburn & Joe Bouchard (Founding bassist of Blue Oyster Cult)
SPRING semester

2018 "Perspectives: The Work of Willem de Kooning" The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
with Richard Shiff, PhD - Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin

2015 "Colors, Chords and Creativity" M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts with Joe Bouchard - musician

2014 "Learning From My Mentor, Willem de Kooning" Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014 "Streams" an exhibition book with an essay by
Richard Shiff, PhD (Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art History at University of Texas at Austin)

2014 Judith Zilczer, "A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning", Phaidon, 2014

2010 "Land Alive" an exhibition book with an essay by
Nouritza Matossian (Author of "Black Angel - The Biography of Arshile Gorky")

2010 Amy Barry, "Entering the World of Joan Levy Hepburn in Two Exhibits".
The Day , New London, CT. (8/12/10): Life Feature

2010 Sandi Shelton, "On Murray Pond: Preserve Inspires Painters, Writers, Musicians".
New Haven Register , New Haven, CT. (7/19/10): Life Feature

2010 Judy Samelson (Playbill Magazine), "Travels With Her Aunt"
Shoreline Times, Guilford, CT. (7/15/10): Life Feature

2010 Norwich Bulletin.com, "New Exhibit Opens at Hygienic Art Gallery", Jan. 21, 2010

2008 Jennifer Shafer Wood, "The Color Doctor Paints the Woods of Killingworth".
The Middletown Press , Middletoe, CT. (9/27/08): Weekend Feature

2007 Suzanne M. Levine, "Joan of Art".
Ink Magazine , Vol 2 Issue 10, (Oct : 2007) Feature Article

2004 Stevens & Swan, "De Kooning - An American Master", Knopf Publisher, 2004

2002 Diane Smith, "Christmas in Connecticut", Globe Pequot Publisher, 2002

1991 Julie Lynch, "Killingworth Artist Saves Hemlocks With a Paintbrush" ,
The Middletown Press, Middletown, CT. (12/26/91): Habitat Feature

1991 John Dorsey, "Landscapes at Grimaldis Display Distinct Styles".
The Baltimore Sun , Baltimore, MD. (7/15/91): Today, Section B

1991 "Benson Gallery to Open Season".
The Easthampton Star, Easthampton, NY. (5/10/91): Review of New Generation

Joan Levy Hepburn

Artist & Musician