Joan Albaugh
Joan Albaugh is an oil painter primarily known for her house paintings. Her portraits of isolated houses, often windowless, reside alone in a world with landscape as a backdrop, as statement and testament. Throughout her career her travels and interest in the Arctic have woven in and out of her work. Her portraits of icebergs and floaties stand as testament to a world of ice that is swiftly disappearing, and like her houses, snorkelers, buoys and roads, her images all speak to a story that connects and evokes our shared human experience.She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston/Tufts in 1981. For the past 30 years, she’s been calling Nantucket her home where she lives and paints. “Throughout my career as an artist certain themes and images have remained constant…their essence continues to weave in and out of my work. Be it an isolated house, an empty pool, a snorkeler, a bush or a buoy…all are echoes of a story, a story perhaps without a plot, a haiku of a memory, a breeze with light.”
