Jo Whaley: Final Friday Off-Center Artist Talk

Join us on the final Friday in January to learn about Jo Whaley and her work in the latest installment of the exhibition, Off-Center: New Mexico Art 1970-2000. 

This program at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is part of a series of artist talks in conjunction with the exhibition Off-Center. This program is made possible by Pat and Jim Hall.                                                                 Jo Whaley resides in Santa Fe NM, but has lifelong roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she earned advanced degrees in Art and Photography from the University of California at Berkeley. She originally studied to become a painter and later took a day job as a scenic artist for the San Francisco Opera and other Bay Area theatrical companies, which greatly influenced her approach to photography.

Widely exhibited, Jo Whaley’s work is held in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. From 2008 to 2013, her exhibit, The Theater of Insects toured museums, opening at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC and concluding at the Henry Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, England. Chronicle Books published “The Theater of Insects” monograph.  In 2018-19 she had an exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, which intermixed her photographs with O’Keeffe’s paintings.  Whaley received one of the last National Endowment Visual Artists Fellowships in 1994 for her “Natura Morta” series and received five  grants to work with the Polaroid 20×24 camera in New York. 

FREE to attend!

Image: Jo Whaley, Knows No Scents, 1991, chromogenic print, 22 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (56.5 × 44.5 cm). Jane Reese Williams Collection, Museum acquisition through the New Mexico Council on Photography, 1994, (1994.29.1)