Joy Floyd
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
For me, the "sacred search" (Joseph Conrnell's phrase) is the beginning. I collect discarded bits and pieces of cloth, wood, metal, paper, even feathers, leather, buttons, and glass for my collage. The unique history of a found piece brings an element of beauty that, in combination with other found materials, challenges the artist to offer it anew to the world.
Textures, shapes, colors are my focus in working out the puzzle of pieces in each collage. Finding a beautiful fabric or discarded paper, some rusted metal or scarred wood inspires the outcome of a collage more than my preconceived ideas.
The excitement is in the discovery of new riches in abandoned objects and honoring them with a new life.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Connecticut Women Artists
New Haven Paint an dClay Club
Silvermine Guild of Artists
Small Walls Gallery
Artworks Gallery
Mather Art Space, Trinity College
Three Person Shows:
Pumphouse Gallery 1991
CT Commission on the Artss 1998 (Artist Fellowship Award)
100 Pearl Street Gallery 2001
Washington Art Assoc. Gallery 2004
Alexey von Sclippe Gallery 2007
100 Pearl Street Gallery 2007
Selected One Person Shows:
Hartford Seminary 1998
Interchurch Center Gallery, New York City 1993
Showcase for Collage, Providence, RI 1997
Capital Community College, Hartford, CT 2000
John Bryan Gallery, Farmington, CT 1996, 2002
Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT 1996,2002
Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, Groton, CT 2002
Stevens Gallery, University of CT, Storrs 2003
Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT 2005, 2008
Hamden Hall Country Day School, Hamden, CT 2007
Seabury Corridor Gallery, Seabury, CT 2009
Contact Joy at:
400 Seabury Drive, # 3106
Bloomfield, CT 06002
(860) 243-3054
joyfloyd@sbcglobal.net
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Mola Bird
Self Portrait
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