About Joan

JOAN G. COX was born in Connecticut and grew up in Chicago, but has called the Twin Cities home since her graduation from the University of Minnesota, where she majored in French and Art History.

At first, figures and landscape accounted for much of her work, fed by sabbaticals in England, France and Italy.

For the last decade she has moved into abstract and non-representational painting, a direction prompted by commissions for stained glass windows. Grids, calligraphic marks, layering and texture have been features of this work, as has experimentation with a variety of materials. Lately, cold wax medium has become an important tool.

She works in a tent in the north woods, a carport on a sub-tropical barrier island, and in her studio in Saint Paul.