Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today, on view May 19 – August 11, 2018. A public opening reception and artist walk-through takes place Saturday, May 19, 4-6pm, with walk-through at 4:30pm.

Things We Said Today follows Greenbaum’s prodigious mark-making and uncanny color sensibility across media and surface. Using a language of abstraction that toggles between chaos and order, Greenbaum takes on architecture with a suite of recent oversized canvases, punctuated by a series of sculptural pen drawings, watercolors, painted ceramics, and artist sketchbooks. In total, the gestures and forms that migrate from one substrate to another speak to an expansive practice that distinguishes little between form, yet conveys everything of the intensity and immediacy of unspoken thoughts amid the chaos of our time. Things We Said Today is curated by Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator of the Tufts University Art Galleries. The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College presentation is organized by Kate McNamara, Director of Galleries and Exhibitions. The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure produced by Tufts University Art Galleries with an essay by Kate McNamara.

Joanne Greenbaum (b. 1953) lives and works in New York City. Over the past twenty years she has participated in numerous shows in the U.S. and Europe. Most recently Greenbaum has exhibited her work at Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland; Greengrassi, London, England; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; Van Horn Gallery, Dusseldorf; Texas Gallery, Houston; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; and Richard Telles, Los Angeles. A career-spanning survey of her was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich and traveled to Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany in 2008 - 09. Her work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.