"Fourier Transform" (detail), by Joan Hierholzer

Theme: Art and Artists. Notes by Mark Lentz.

Joan Hierholzer's solo show, "Age of Marvels" opened last night at the National Arts Club, and runs through this Sunday.

As Joan is a close family friend, we (my Dad, me and two of my friends) were given the opportunity to help her hang the show, a major life event for an artist, and fraught with anxiety. The 23 paintings were transported from New Jersey in "Gigi", Joan's vintage GM van, without incident, and my crew took great pride in hanging an entire room by ourselves (with only minor incident), and every painting was just as straight and square as the next.

In her Age of Marvels series, Joan Hierholzer explores an emerging world of tomorrow, where technology opens new channels for Nature and the Human Spirit, and they rush in with enormous energy.

In these visionary paintings all manner of marvels occur. A house reconstitutes itself in columns of pure power ("Fourier Transform"). A flower commandeers a gusher of plasma ("Bloomation"). A condensing spirit brings a range of hills under its protection ("Laminar Flow"). A cluster of windblown towers draws bands of spellbound pilgrims ("Wireless Spires"). The World Tree regrows from its massive stump ("World Tree"). And so on -- a world beyond our imagining greets us with scenes we somehow always knew were up ahead. (catalog notes by Robert Lentz)

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11/4/2003

		"Fourier Transform" (detail), by Joan Hierholzer Theme: Art and Artists. Notes by Mark Lentz. Joan Hierholzer's solo show, "Age of Marvels" opened last night at the National Arts Club, and runs through this Sunday. As Joan is a close family friend, we (my Dad, me and two of my friends) were given the opportunity to help her hang the show, a major life event for an artist, and fraught with anxiety. The 23 paintings were transported from New Jersey in "Gigi", Joan's vintage GM van, without incident, and my crew took great pride in hanging an entire room by ourselves (with only minor incident), and every painting was just as straight and square as the next. In her Age of Marvels series, Joan Hierholzer explores an emerging world of tomorrow, where technology opens new channels for Nature and the Human Spirit, and they rush in with enormous energy. In these visionary paintings all manner of marvels occur. A house reconstitutes itself in columns of pure power ("Fourier Transform"). A flower commandeers a gusher of plasma ("Bloomation"). A condensing spirit brings a range of hills under its protection ("Laminar Flow"). A cluster of windblown towers draws bands of spellbound pilgrims ("Wireless Spires"). The World Tree regrows from its massive stump ("World Tree"). And so on -- a world beyond our imagining greets us with scenes we somehow always knew were up ahead. (catalog notes by Robert Lentz) All content ©2003 on behalf of its creators. if you would like to be notified occasionally about noteworthy new content on NYCJPG. This page requires a 6.0+ browser for the pictures/text to display correctly. If you have an older version of Netscape, Explorer, or AOL, the text will appear cut off and the pictures distorted. Site Tips: If you have Explorer or AOL (recent version), and a mouse with a scroll wheel, you should be able to move the mouse anywhere over the text at right and scroll it with the wheel, so you can still see the picture while reading. Most of the pages have a large version of the main picture which you can make your wallpaper by first clicking on it to download, then right-clicking and choosing "Set as Background".