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Joy Curtis

Joy Curtis’ work uses an array of history-laden materials to creates visual fables. Her practice involves extensive research from the origins of commercial fabrics and dyes, to minerology to architecture. She layers and juxtaposes cloth with brass, hand dyed fabrics rusted with oxidized metals, wax and bronze. Her works describe a rich inner world, one which can be deciphered through its material references, but not fully understood.

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Joy Curtis: The Inner Hospital

Explore the making of “The Inner Hospital” in Edition No. 10 of KLAUSGALLERY.CLOUD

Publication

Joy Curtis in "december"

Joy Curtis has several of her sculptures from her Skeleton Woman series reproduced in december, volume 33.2. A concise overview of the series written by december art editor Buzz Spector is included in the introduction to the current issue.

Outside Exhibition

Joy Curtis in Group Show at Museum of New Art

Joy Curtis has works included in Broken Open, a group show at MONA in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The show is up from April 19 to September 25, 2022.

interview

Sculpture Today: A Discussion with Joy Curtis and Rachel Beach

Hrag Vartanian interviews Joy Curtis and Rachel Beach about their concurrent sculpture shows.

Review

Jennifer J. Lee and Joy Curtis

Johanna Fateman reviews two concurrent solo shows at Klaus Gallery by Joy Curtis and Jennifer J. Lee

Review

Contemporary Takes on the Self in a Manhattan Church

Allison Meier reviews On the Inner and Outer Self at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan.

Interview

Sculpture Today: A Discussion with Joy Curtis and Rachel Beach

Hrag Vartanian interviews Joy Curtis and Rachel Beach for Hyperallergic.

Residency

Kemar Keanu Wynter and Joy Curtis at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

Kemar Keanu Wynter and Joy Curtis are both recipients of the 2023–24 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free private studio spaces to a jury-selected group of artists for one year.

discussion

Hearts Gymnastics

Joy Curtis and Melissa Brown discuss their critique club, Hearts Gymnastics. Towards the end of the discussion, Cynthia Carlson joins the conversation.