REVIEWS

Woman Around Town
Joan Giordano — A Painter Finds Her Passion for Paper
Charlene Giannetti
September, 2012

During the last presidential election, Joan Giordano became very involved watching the political process unfold. “I was totally sucked in,” she said. “All these talking heads and pundits. We were constantly bombarded. It’s about the noise that we hear constantly in our heads and how it doesn’t always relate to what is occurring.” Joan took newspapers and began to create. “I was weaving in papers from all over the world,” she said, incorporating other materials like corrugated cardboard, burnt papers, wallpaper, copper wire, ancient Chinese paper, found objects, and wax.

The result was “Who Owns the News.” It’s easy to be mesmerized by the piece.”You get close and you read little excerpts and it’s fun,” she said. “You have a window into what was happening at that time.”

The Wall Street Journal
Pleasant Unease in the Fresh Aesthetic Air
Peter Plagens
July, 2012

Art in America Magazine
The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss
AiA Staff "Editors Select"
July, 2012

SCULPTURE Magazine
Joan Giordano at Tenri Cultural Institute
Jonathan Goodman
December, 2007

"Giordano’s vertical presences might easily stand for actual figures. At the same time, they are exquisite examples of abstract sculptures."

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WAXING POETIC
ENCAUSTIC ART in AMERICA
The Montclair Art Museum
catalogue 
Curator: Gail Stavitsky
Library Of Congress Catalog Card number 99- 070653
1999 

The Philadelphia Inquirer

 Victoria Donohoe
September 12, 2008

"Giordano's handsomely textured sculptures are the result of a complex thought and work process that moves between freedom and rational control."

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MAINLINE TIMES, PHILADELPHIA, PA
 Marie Fowler
September 18, 2008
 

"Moving Out is evocative of hot lava streaming down undulating hills."
 

The Advocate & Greenwich Times
East Meets West at the Hammond Museum
 L.P. Streitfeld
August 22, 2004
 

Sarasota Herald Tribune
Joan Altabe
February 27, 1994

"In Giordano's hands, paper - the marble of modern sculpture - ranges beyond history, past prehistory, back to places of legend where paintings had magical function."

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Fiberarts
Interview with Sandra Sider
Pg 33, 7 pages with photos:
Vol. 26, No.3
Nov/Dec 1999

New York Times
Art; "Imagery of Three Artists Is Contrasted in Pearl River Exhibit."
D Dominick Lombardi
Jan 16, 2000

New York Times/LI
Donald Judd, Joan Giordano
Vincent Katz
July 26, 1997

New York Times/ LI
"Abstractionists Star in East End Shows"
Helen Harrison
July 29, 1984

ARTnews
Joan Giordano
Walter Wickiser Gallery
Olivia W Douglas
July 29, 1984

NEW YORK NEWSDAY
Manhattan Profile
July 16, 1992

SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
 "Art: Making New History"
 Joan Altabe
January, 1995

NEW YORK TIMES
NEIGHBORHOOD: St George
Skin Deep; A Solo Show, Skin; Structure and Form at the Staten Island Museum
March 14, 1999

COVER ARTS, NEW YORK
JOAN GIORDANO
STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE ARTS
By Robert Curcio
May 1999
Volume 13

STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
"New Exhibit At The Institute, Skin; Structure & Form showcases the work of Joan Giordano"
by Michael J. Fressola
March 12, 1999

STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
Joan Giordano at Mauro Graphics
by Michael J. Fressola
November 4, 1988