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From my earliest years as a painter, I have used landscape as the focal point of my work.  Although rarely conventional, I consider that my approach to this most Canadian of genres will add to the rich history of Canadian landscape painting.

In the 1970s, I produced a series of landscape paintings containing surreal plant forms that represented human characteristics. These paintings celebrated the cycle of birth and regeneration.  In the garden paintings of the late seventies, the plant forms became more realistic and became metaphors for the human figure, both male and female.  These paintings are in various public collections across Canada, including the Canada Council Art Bank.

During the 1980s, I introduced a nude male figure into the landscape and the final painting in this series was one titled “Floating”. This work consisted of sixteen-canvas panels and was sixty-four feet long. It featured a nude male figure floating in the sky above a continuous landscape of the Banff town site viewed from the summit of Sulphur Mountain. This painting is in the collection of the University of Lethbridge.  

Through the 1990s I continued to use the panoramic format, but on a smaller scale. Canadian and Mexican locations as well as the western American states that were the transition between my studios in Calgary, Alberta and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico were painted on usually long, narrow panels of various metals—copper, brass, tin—or canvas.  These paintings are in various corporate and private collections across Canada and the United States.

In 1999, I painted a series of one hundred canvases, titled “Driving South” that depicted a motor journey from southern Alberta to central Mexico.  Each of these 6” x 9” canvases records a view from inside a moving vehicle, an increasingly frequent location from which landscape is experienced as we enter the twenty-first century.  Five panoramas of the states that I drove through were completed at that time.  This work was exhibited at the Atelier Gallery in Vancouver during the fall of the 2000.  Some of these paintings are in various corporate and private collections in Alberta.

Since moving to Kelowna in 1999, my inspiration comes from the landscape in the Okanagan and I continue to paint in the panoramic format, documenting weather phenomenon and my spiritual connection to this location in Canada.  Many of these series, “Lake Panoramas”, “Storms and Rainbows” and “Variations of Light”, all oil on canvas, have been shown at Wallace Galleries in Calgary and are now in corporate and private collections across Canada.


Joice M. Hall, RCA

BORN              
Edmonton, Alberta, 1943

EDUCATION     
1960-65 Alberta College of Art, CalgarY

HONOURS        
2000 Elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
                                   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 1981               
    • “New Work”, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, AB
  • 1982               
    • “Joice M. Hall: Paintings and Drawings”, Gallery Quan, Toronto, ON.
  • 1984               
    • “Banff Landscapes”, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, AB.
  • 1987               
    • “Joice M. Hall / Figures”, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, AB.
    • “Floating”, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
  • 1989               
    •  “Joice M. Hall; New Works from Mexico”, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
  • 1990               
    • “Ofrenda”; Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB.   
  • 1990-91            
    • “Floating”, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
  • 1994               
    • “Festive Images of San Miguel: 1988-‘93”, Centro Cultural el Nigromante, S.M.A., Gto., MEX.
    • “Panoramic Landscapes: Cypress Hills Series”, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB.
  • 1996               
    • “Semana Santa Series”, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB.
  • 1997                
    • “Night Garden Walk”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
  • 1998                
    • “Summer Panoramas”, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB.
  • 1999                
    • “Dia de los Muretos”, Casa Verde Galeria, San Miguel de Allende, MX.
  • 2000                
    • “Driving South”, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • 2001               
    • “Lake Panoramas”, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
  • 2004               
    • “Storms and Rainbows”, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB
  • 2005               
    • “Swelling Cumulus”, Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC
  • 2007                
    • “Variations of Light”, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB
  • 2010    
    • SURREAL. REAL. IDEAL: a Retrospective Exhibition , Kelowna Art Gallery,
      Kelowna, BC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 1969               
    •  “ All Alberta '69”, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
    • “Spring Exhibition”, Agnes Etherington, Art Centre, Kingston, ON.
  • 1970               
    •  “John Hall / Joice Hall”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.  
  • 1971               
    • R.C.A. Jury Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
                             “West '71”, Edmonton Art Gallery; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
  • 1973               
    • “Art in Alberta”, Eric Harvey Theatre, Banff Premiere Exhibition; Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton; Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB.
  • 1974               
    • “Manisphere”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MA.
    • “Fourteen From Calgary”, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
    • “The Prairies”, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, QU.
  • 1974-75          
    • “Rose Museum”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB. (National Tour)
  • 1975-76          
    •  “Alberta Art”, organized by the Alberta Art Foundation; travelling to London, Paris, New York and Montreal.                            
    • “Changes”, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
  • 1976               
    • “Joice Hall / John Hall”, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
                             “Eight Calgary Artists”, Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon, SA.
  • 1977               
    • “Alberta Work”, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB.
    • “Painting Now”, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON.
    • “New Realist Painting and Drawing”, Subway Galleries, Calgary, AB.
  • 1980               
    • “Alberta Now”, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
  • 1981   
    • “New Acquisitions”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
  • 1982               
    • “Body Parts”, SUB Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
    • “Art Bank Exhibition”, I.G.A. Gallery, Toronto, ON.
  • 1983               
    • “Choices”, Alberta Art Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Provincial Museum, Edmonton, AB.                       
    • “Le Nu et l'erotisme dans l'art contemporain canadien” University of Quebec, Montreal, QU; Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
  • 1984               
    • “The First 10”, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, AB.
    • “Edge and Image: The Frame in Recent Canadian Art”, Concordia University, Montreal, QU.
  • 1985               
    • “A Measure of Success”, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB.                                                          
  • 1986               
    • “Alberta College of Art Faculty Exhibition”, A.C.A. Gallery, Calgary, AB.
    • “Spaces and Places”, organized by the Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton Art  Gallery; Prince George Art Gallery; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Burnaby Art Gallery; Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie; Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherines; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.                        
  • 1987               
    • “Contemporary Painting in Alberta”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary,AB.
    • “The Exchange Show”, Milan, Italy; Stuttgart, West Germany.
  • 1988               
    • “Celebration 88”, Petro Canada Exhibition Gallery, Calgary, AB.
  • 1989               
    • “Painting Representing Landscape”, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB.
  • 1990               
    • “Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
    • “More than One”, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB.
  • 1990-91          
    •  “Within Range”, U. of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, travelling exhibition; center for contemporary arts, Great Falls, Montana & Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana.
  • 1994               
    • “The Human Factor”, C.C.A.B. exhibition, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff AB.
  • 1995               
    • “Mysteries of the Flesh”, Gulf Canada Tower, Calgary, AB.
    • “Cinco Dedos de una Misma Mano”, Canadian Embassy, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
    • “Realism Revisited”, Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB.
  • 1996                
    • “Artistas Canadienses en Mexico”, Centro Cultural ISSSTE, Celaya, Mexico.
  • 1999               
    • “Calgary in Perspective”, Muttart Gallery. Calgary, AB.
  • 2001               
    • “Spring Show 2002”, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary AB
  • 2003               
    • “Valley Lakescapes and Still Lifes”, 2-person exhibition with John Hall, Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC
  • 2004                
    • “Fire and Rebirth”,  (January-March), Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC                      
    • Landscape Revisited” (March-May), Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC
  • 2005               
    • “Oasis” (May-September), Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
  • 2006  
    • “MIMESIS” 2-person exhibition with John Hall, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

  • 1978               
    • “Alberta Panorama”, Government of Canada Building, Calgary.
  • 1982               
    • “Floral Landscape #3”, Foothills Hospital Calgary.                           

COLLECTIONS

Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary
Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton
Canada Council Art Bank
First Ten Energy Capital Corporation
Foothills Hospital, Calgary
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Government of Canada, Department of Public Works
Guaranty Trust Co., Calgary
G – Tec Corporation, U.S.A..
Haywood Securities, Calgary
Inter-Provincial Pipeline, Edmonton
MacKimmie Matthews, Calgary
MacLeod Dixon, Calgary
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Petro-Canada Inc.
Talisman Energy, Calgary
Trans-Canada Pipelines Ltd.
University of Calgary
University of Lethbridge
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary
Devon Canada Corporation, Calgary
Jennings Capital Inc., Calgary
Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary

                           
BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALBERTA ART FOUNDATION: -”Spaces and Places”- video tape produced by Alberta Art Foundation, ‘85
ALBERTA COLLEGE OF ART GALLERY: “Albertawork”- exhibition catalogue p.8; introduction by Alvin Balkind; March, 1977.                                                  
ANONYMOUS: “Olivia and the Nude”-article, Alberta Report, June 13, 1980.
AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE: “Painting Now 76/77- Joice M. Hall'~- exhibition pamphlet; Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 1976/77.
BLAKEMAN, EVELYN: “On Art”- review of “Body Parts” exhibition on SUB Gallery, U. of A.; Edmonton Journal, Sept. 5, 1982
BAKER, SUZANNE DEVONSHIRE: “Artists of Alberta” book published by University of Alberta press; p.6; 1980.
COCHRAN, BENTE ROED: “Controversial Art Exhibit Found Discouraging and wanting”- review of “Alberta Now”, Edmonton Art Gallery; Edmonton Journal, May 15, 1980.
DYENS, GEORGE: review of “Changes” exhibition at Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery; Vie des Art; 1976.
EDMONTON ART GALLERY: “Alberta Now”- exhibition catalogue; Edmonton Art Gallery,
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FEHR, KIMBERLY:  “Art on the Move”, WHERE Magazine, Calgary, AB., 1994
HOGG, CAROL: “11 Striking Artists- and All of Them Women”- review of “Changes” exhibition; Calgary Herald, June 4, 1976.
HUME , CHRI STOPHER: “A Beautiful Thing”- review of “ Jo ice M. Hall/Paintings and Drawings” at Gallery Quan, Toronto; Toronto Star, Nov. 20, 1982
IRONSIDE, JETSKE: “Spaces and Places”- exhibition catalogue p.124-125; introduction by Jetske Ironside; Alberta Art Foundation; 1985.
JOYNER, BROOKS: “For Arta Sake”- review of Subway Gallery Exhibition; The Albertan, 1978,
LAVIOLETTE; MARY-BETH: “Exploring Contemporary Realism” review of solo exhibition, “Lake Panoramas” at Wallace Galleries; The Calgary Herald, Nov. 24, 2001
LINDLAND, PAULINE: “Celebration 88”- exhibition catalogue p. 12-12; Petro Canada Exhibition Gallery; Calgary, Feb., 1988.
MENDELL ART GALLERY: “ 8 Calgary Artists”- exhibition catalogue; introduction by George Moppett; Saskatoon, Sask., 1976.
NORMAN MACKENZIE ART GALLERY: “Changes; 11 Artists Working on the Prairies”- exhibition catalogue p. 16-17; introduction by Carol A. Phillips; Regina, Saskatchewan, 1976.
OFF CENTRE CENTRE: “The First Ten”- exhibition catalogue p. 35,48; forward by Don Mabie; introduction by Nancy Tousley; Calgary, Alberta, 1985.
PRIEGERT, PORTIA, “John & Joice Hall: Views From the Interior”, cover article, Galleries West, Fall 2003, pp 12, 13
PRIEGERT, PORTIA, “A couple who paints together, exhibits together”, Kelowna Daily Courier EVENT arts supplement, June 17-July 1, 2003, p14
REINECKE, HELEN: “V Festival de Invierno 1994”, Atencíon, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico.
SENST, JOHN: “The Artistic Hall Family”- Calgary Sun, June 16, 1976.
TAHN, ANDRAS: “Disagreeable Art?- It's All Experience”- letter to the editor re: “Alberta Now” exhibition; Edmonton Journal, June 6, 1980.
TIVEY, PATRICK: “Faculty Art Show Marks Freedom”- Calgary Herald, Fall 1986.
TIVEY, SANDRA: “JOICE HALL”- review of “Banff Landscapes” exhibition at Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary; Vanguard Magazine, April, 1985.
TIVEY, SANDRA: “Floating”- exhibition catalogue essay; Southern Alberta
Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Sept. 1987.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Some of These Painters Not Yet Ready For Public Scrutiny”- review of “New Realist Painting and Drawing” at Subway Gallery; Calgary Herald, March 10, 1976.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Alberta Now”- review of exhibition at Edmonton Art Gallery; Calgary Herald, May 15, 1980.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “ Exhibit ion Shows Diversity of Drawing Being Done in Alberta”- review of “Some Drawings by Some Albertans” at A.C.A. Gallery; Calgary Herald, Nov. 27, 1980.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Painter Thumbs Her Nose at Taboo”- review of “Joice M. Hall/Paintings and Drawings.” at Off Centre Centre; Calgary Herald, Sept.10, 1981.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Alberta Panorama Tailored For Atrium”- Calgary Herald, Nov. 18, 1984.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Artist Experiments”- review of “Banff Landscapes” at Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Herald, Feb., 1985.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Alberta Artists at Leighton Artist Colony”, Alberta Visual Arts Newsletter, 1985.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Artist Captures Scope, Grandeur of the Rockies”- artist in the studio series, Calgary Herald, Summer, 1986.
TOUSLEY, NANCY: “Figures Transformed into Symbolic Farm”- review of “Joice M. Hall/Figures” at Paul Kuhn Gallery; Calgary Herald, April 18, 1987.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Floating on View in Lethbridge”- art briefs; Calgary Herald, Sept. 4, 1987.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Artist Attempts Allegory of Spiritual Transcendence”-review of “Floating” exhibition at Nickle Arts Museum; Calgary Herald, Nov. 1987.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Art Links Two Worlds”, Calgary Herald, Nov., 1990.
TOUSLEY, NANCY:  “Magical Panoramas Unearth Wanderlust”, Calgary Herald, Dec., 1994
VARGA, VINCENT: “Aspects of Contemporary Painting in Alberta”- exhibition catalogue p. 38-9; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, 1987.
WALTERS, JANET: “Joice M. Hall/Floating”- Gallery magazine; Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Lethbridge, Alberta; Sept.-Nov, 1987.
WILKIN, KAREN: review of “Changes” exhibition; Arts Canada, 1976.
WOYWITKA, ANNE: “Is it Art or Just Pornography?”- letter to the editor re: Alberta Now” exhibition at Edmonton Art Gallery; Edmonton Journal, June 6, 1980