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Joey Fauerso
Joey Fauerso is an artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts and the recipient of the 2023 Presidential Seminar Award from Texas State University. Her work consists mostly of painting, video, installation and performance addressing issues of gender, humor and family. Recently her work has been exhibited at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, the Galveston Art Center, Western Exhibitions Gallery, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center in New York, and New Mexico State University Art Museum. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso’s work is in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the McNay Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, Ruby City Museum, New Mexico State University Museum of Art Frost Bank Collection, and many other private and public collections. Fauerso is a Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.
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Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance. My subject matter is both personal and political, and centers on family, gender, humor, figuration and representation. Many of my projects use humor and performance to subvert and challenge traditions within Western art.
I am interested in an expanded definition of painting. I apply paint over an entire surface, and then scrape it off using various kitchen spatulas, clay tools and silkscreen squeegees. The process is very sculptural and immediate. I think of the paintings as two-dimensional carvings that are subtractive in nature. Because I make them on the floor, they also become indexical records of the textures of the ground.
In addition to my work in galleries and museums I have also worked on a number of public art commissions, and community engagement projects. Many of these projects have focused on the biodiversity of the region, focusing on the plants and animals that live along the San Antonio River. I love working with children and the community, and have been a Professor of Art at Texas State University for the last seventeen years.
