Artist Joan Tucker Works Featured on Brothers & Sisters
22 Abstract Paintings by Joan Tucker Appeared in Luc’s Gallery
Los Angeles, CA— Artist Joan Tucker took over Luc’s sold out gallery event on last night’s episode of Brothers & Sisters. The episode featured 22 of Joan’s exceptionally detailed abstract paintings, one of which will take up permanent residence in Kitty’s apartment in future episodes.
“I’m pleased that Brothers & Sisters recognized my work by featuring so many of my paintings in this one episode and for purchasing one of those paintings for appearances in upcoming episodes,” says costume designer turned artist Joan Tucker. “Licensing and selling my paintings and mixed media collage to film and television properties in addition to traditional gallery exhibitions exposes my work to a larger art-buying audience.”
Since applying her creativity to the art of mixed media collage and abstract painting, Joan’s work, which is widely collected both nationally and internationally, has also appeared in a variety of places including film and TV sets such as Little Fockers and Brothers & Sisters, to several corporate collections including Wells Fargo, the private collection of a LACMA Board Member, to the Michael Jackson suite at the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City to the Tower Suites at Mandalay Bay.
Joan approaches each new work of art with an invigorated spirit and draws on her everyday surroundings and adventures to source materials and ponder her next creative direction. Walking into Joan‘s West Adams studio amidst finished works you’ll find shredded billboards, old paintings and newspaper she’s picked up from her travels, torn photographs, and an array of remnants from in and around Los Angeles, which Joan seamlessly constructs into beautifully composed collages and paintings.
“I begin to dig and shape... to push and pull...to sometimes tearing the painting apart and reassembling it with other elements. I scribble imaginary shapes. I create a private alphabet. I apply paint and scratch it away with my fingernails or an old brush or alcohol. The whole process is very exciting - full of energy and emotion and yet the principals of design are there, fighting to be considered,” Joan says of her process. ”In the end I have a painting that was begun in an emotional and intuitive state, tamed and controlled by the basic elements of organization and composition that invokes a secret world...a provocative world...a rich and sensual world to get lost and found in.”
ABOUT JOAN TUCKER
Joan Tucker was born in Detroit Michigan and first began styling in Chicago, for print and TV, where she met and worked with Nicholas Ray while he was shooting his film on the Chicago 7 Trial in1969.
Joan moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970's where she continued her career in wardrobe design working on several Gene Corman produced "blaxploitation" movies and styling commercials for the likes of Andrew Davis, Joe Pytka, Barry Sonnenfeld, Steve Horn, Norman Griner, Henry Sandbank, David Cornell, Kinka Usher, Caleb Deschanel, David Steinberg and others including photographer Reid Miles.
In LA, Joan developed a long and successful career in costume design for film, and TV. Just as Joan pieced together fabrics of every texture and color to create costumes for award-winning advertisements, her paintings reflect great variety in form, palette and message from series to series, while definitively incorporating her curiosity, whimsy, liveliness and unabashed emotion.
" I love color, texture, archeology, buried secrets, surprise discoveries, layers and emotion,” says Joan of the inspiration for her works. Joan's sophisticated use of layering with paint and collage allows her to create a world where what is hidden is slowly revealed as the viewer spends time exploring the canvases.
Though Joan continues styling for commercials and works on various interior design projects, she can be most often found in her studio "fighting it out with her paintings" and creating remarkable works of art. For more information about Joan Tucker and to view galleries of her works, please visit JoanTucker.com