Joan wadleigh curran biography

American artist (1950–2023)

Joan Wadleigh Curran (April 27, 1950 – March 29, 2023)^[1] was an American visual artist, painter, and printmaker active in Philadelphia, known primarily for her figurative paintings and drawings in which she addressed the intersection of the natural world and human intervention.

Joan Wadleigh Curran, a former senior lecturer of painting and drawing in the Weitzman School of Design, died on March 29 of complications from metastatic.

Joan Wadleigh Curran is a Philadelphia based artist who works in painting, drawing and printmaking.

Joan Wadleigh Curran (April 27, – March 29, ) was an.

Joan Wadleigh Curran was an American visual artist, painter, and printmaker active in Philadelphia, known primarily for her figurative paintings and drawings in which she addressed the intersection of the natural world and human intervention.

Joan Wadleigh Curran, 72, of Philadelphia, prolific painter and drawer, juror and curator, printer, mentor, and longtime senior lecturer at the University of.

Between 2001 and 2016, Curran served as Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the University of Pennsylvania.^[2]

Life and work

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Curran received a B.S.

in art from Skidmore College in 1972 and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1974. In 1974, she began teaching studio art at LaGrange College in Troup County, Georgia, where she worked until 1977.^[3]

When discussing her own work, the artist explained that painting provided her "with an opportunity to connect to the physical world", allowing her in turn to understand "the relationship between the tangible presence of real objects and their