joan duff bohrer

Duff Bohrer’s work features strong color and a loose painterly style, characterized by a construction and destruction of drawn shapes. Her current series involves layers of drawing of unrelated objects, selected for their unusual shapes. These layers and shapes later merge into a large color composition, presently involving birds and cages. The ‘merging’ process is dependent on imagination and chance. The artist is intent on the resulting painting having suggestions of human relationships. Choice, freedom, security, and alienation are strains of thought which sometimes direct the focus of the work.

Nov. 2006

These dream-like large charcoal images speak of feelings that lie beneath the surface

Dream Series

Impressions generated by world news is the impetus for these collaged, roughly surfaced oil paintings. The large bas relief assemblages incorporate found objects.

Cycle of Violence Series

The contradiction of free flight and the confinement of cages directs this imagery

Caged Bird Series

Watching the gradual emergence of blossoms from the amaryllis bulb suggested growth in all its forms, human, emotional, and mental.

Bloom Series

Recent Works

The transparent jar in each of these, refelects its surroundings, while at the same time makes a new distorted composition inside its glass walls.

Container Series

Broad Fields, undulating hills, shaded woods, ponds and streams provide patterns of contrast in texture and color. they represent my northern home.

Landscape Series

These large oil paintings use bold colors and brush work to celebrate color and familiar shapes in an abstract way.

Interior Series

"Passion" is Joan's latest commission work chosen to be a surprise gift for a client's spouse. The ability to paint an image on a 8' X 6' canvas takes a special skill that Joan conveys with imagination and ingenuity. The subject of this large painting is the emotional connection into a life.

Commission Series

Working intentionally with dark colors and a suggestion of people and houses, or a house, this series has a somber, November-like consideration of life's twists and turns. This representation of the November series is named "Night Wind".