Joy Broom
Joy Broom’s work has been featured in dozens of exhibitions at a wide range of venues. SOLO shows include Transmission Gallery, Oakland; the deYoung Museum’s Kimball Gallery as Artist-in-Residence; 555 California; the inaugural StartUp Art Fair and StartUp Small Works in San Francisco; Stanford Art Spaces; The Rollup Project and Studio Quercus in Oakland; the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and City Hall; for Startup Curatorial at Yorba Winery, Sutter Creek, and a PopUp at Storer Studio in Pt. Reyes Station.
Two-person shows include Berkeley Wealth Management; Gear Box Gallery, Oakland; the Art Cottage, Concord; Off the Preserve, Napa; and A440 Gallery, San Francisco. Select GROUP shows include the 2020 deYoung Open; SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Transmission and Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco; ShoeBox Projects, Los Angeles; Site: Brooklyn, New York. In the Bay Area, the Triton Museum, Santa Clara; Berkeley Art Center Artist of the Month; six themed exhibitions at the Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek; Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette; Seager Gray Gallery’s Art of the Book, Mill Valley; Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, Santa Rosa; and Gallery Rt. One, Vita Collage and Toby’s in Pt. Reyes Station.
Broom has been a recipient of the WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists for Works on Paper, and is a featured artist on The Studio Work blog. Her work has been published in the book Artists of the Bay Area by Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe; catalogs Art of the Word and Tree Stories by Sasse Museum of Art; Photo Trouvee Magazine; and Humana Obscura Magazine. A wall of shaped multiples of chewing gum and oil paint was hung in the original contemporary Bay Area collection at the diRosa Preserve complex in Napa.
For more information about the artist, please visit her website.