Joice M. Hall
{{short description|Canadian artist (born 1943)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date= March 2024}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Joice M. Hall
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name = Joice Marlene Hanak
| birth_date = {{birth year|1943}}
| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality =
| spouse = {{marriage|John Hall|1964}}
| education = Alberta College of Art (now Alberta University of the Arts) in Calgary, graduated in 1965
| awards =
| known_for = painter of landscape panoramas
}}
Joice M. Hall {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 1943) is a Canadian artist from Alberta, now based in British Columbia. She is known primarily as a landscape painter of large panoramas.
Life
Hanak was born in Edmonton, Alberta.{{Cite book|last=Devonshire Baker|first=Suzanne|title=Artists of Alberta|publisher=University of Alberta|year=1980|isbn=0888640307|location=Edmonton|pages=6}} She married John Hall in 1964 and earned a diploma from the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts) in Calgary in 1965.{{Cite web|title=Interior Views: The Vivid Realism of Joice and John Hall|url=https://www.gallerieswest.ca/reviews/interior-views%3A-the-vivid-realism-of-joice-and-john-hall/|last=Priegert|first=Portia|date=2003-08-31|website=Galleries West|language=en-ca|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528194310/https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/interior-views%3A-the-vivid-realism-of-joice-and-john-hall/|archive-date=2020-05-28|access-date=2020-05-28}} At the school, she was taught painting techniques by Illingworth Kerr and appreciated that through him, she learned of the Group of Seven.{{cite book |last1=Ainslie |first1=Patricia |title=Surreal Real Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall [essays by Patricia Ainslie and Liz Wylie] |date=2010 |publisher=Kelowna Art Gallery |location=Kelowna |page=11 |url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tSurreal+Real+Ideal%3A+The+Art+of+Joice+M.+Hall.+Kelowna%3A+Kelowna+Art+Gallery./tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall+kelowna+kelowna+art+gallery/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-| access-date=26 March 2024}}
Hall lived in Calgary for almost 40 years. She and her husband, artist John Hall, also owned a home in San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico, where they spent half of the year during the 1990s.{{Cite web|title=Joice M. Hall|url=https://www.youraga.ca/bio/joice-m-hall|last=|first=|date=|website=Art Gallery of Alberta|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-31}} In 1999, they moved to West Kelowna, in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.{{Cite news|last=Laviolette|first=Mary-Beth|date=2001-11-24|title=Exploring contemporary realism|pages=122|work=Calgary Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52326693/exploring-contemporary-realism/|access-date=2020-05-28}}
Career
Hall has earned recognition for her landscape paintings, often using a panoramic format. A 2001 review in the Calgary Herald wrote that Hall's work appears to explore "the representation of male and female in nature and culture".
Hall's work has been featured in group exhibitions since 1969 in such galleries as the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (1976); the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario (1977); and the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta (1979). Hall's first solo exhibition was held at the Off Centre Centre in Calgary in 1981.{{Cite news|last=Tousley|first=Nancy|date=1981-09-10|title=Painter thumbs her nose at taboo|pages=19|work=Calgary Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52326049/painter-thumbs-her-nose-at-taboo/|access-date=2020-05-28}} The exhibit featured paintings of male nudes.
In 2000, Hall was elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2010, Patricia Ainsley curated for the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia a 40-year retrospective exhibition of her work, titled Surreal, Real, Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall.{{Cite web|title=JOICE HALL "Surreal.Real.Ideal," March 20 to May 23, 2010, Kelowna Art Gallery|url=https://www.gallerieswest.ca/reviews/joice-hall-%22surreal.real.ideal%2C%22-march-20-to-may-23%2C2010%2C-kelowna-art-gallery/|last=Priegert|first=Portia|date=2009-12-31|website=Galleries West|language=en-ca|access-date=2020-05-29}}
Hall was in Gwaii Haanas for the Artists in Gwaii Haanas Residency Program in 2016, a two week residency held in Gwaii Haanas by the Haida Gwaii Museum and Parks Canada. In 2017 there was an exhibition titled, Artists in Gwaii Haanas, at the Haida Gwaii Museum of the work created by the 3 artists in the 2016 residency. In 2018 she had an exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery of her large painting installation inspired by that residency. The exhibition was titled GWAII HAANAS:Islands and Sacred Sites.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://kelownaartgallery.com/joicehall-gwaiihaanas/ |website=kelownaartgallery.com |publisher=Kelowna Art Gallery |access-date=22 March 2024}}
In 2024, Wallace Galleries in Calgary held a show of 15 of her paintings titled Joice M. Hall - Nocturnal Light.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://wallacegalleries.com/exhibitions/joice-m-hall-nocturnal-light |website=wallacegalleries.com |publisher=Wallace Galleries, Calgary |access-date=13 February 2024}}
Selected public commissions
- 1978: Alberta Panorama, Government of Canada Building;
- 1982: ''Floral Landscape #3, Foothills Hospital, Calgary;
Selected public collections
- Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton;{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://alberta.emuseum.com/search/joice%20m.%20hall |website=/alberta.emuseum.com |publisher=Alberta Art Foundation |access-date=26 March 2024}}
- Canada Council Art Bank;{{cite book |last1=Ainslie |first1=Patricia |title=Surreal Real Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall |date=2010 |publisher=Kelowna Art Gallery |location=Kelowna |page=n.p. |url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tSurreal+Real+Ideal%3A+The+Art+of+Joice+M.+Hall.+Kelowna%3A+Kelowna+Art+Gallery./tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall+kelowna+kelowna+art+gallery/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-| access-date=26 March 2024}}
- Glenbow Museum, Calgary;
- Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary;
- Remai Modern, Saskatoon;{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://collections.remaimodern.org/search/%22joice%20m.%20hall%22 |website=collections.remaimodern.org |publisher=Remai Modern, Saskatoon |access-date=26 March 2024}}
- University of Calgary;
- University of Lethbridge;
Further reading
- {{cite book |title=Surreal Real Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall |date=2010 |publisher=Kelowna Art Gallery |location=Kelowna|url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tSurreal+Real+Ideal%3A+The+Art+of+Joice+M.+Hall.+Kelowna%3A+Kelowna+Art+Gallery./tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall+kelowna+kelowna+art+gallery/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=tsurreal+real+ideal+the+art+of+joice+m+hall&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=- |isbn= 978-1-8967494-64 |access-date=26 March 2024}}
- {{cite book |title=Joice M. Hall: Gwaii Haanas: Islands and Sacred Sights |date=2018 |publisher=Rich Fog Micro Publishing |location= Haida Gwaii|isbn=978-1-988707-15-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyIZzgEACAAJ |access-date=26 March 2024}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Joice M.}}
Category:Artists from Edmonton
Category:Canadian landscape painters
Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:20th-century Canadian women artists