Joyce McDaniel
Joyce McDaniel
Workspace Program Resident 1993
After starting her professional life in finance and not feeling at home, Joyce McDaniel explored interests in art history and later in studio art. She became fascinated with the process of welding and moved into the realm of sculpture. Now working primarily as a sculptor, Joyce incorporates a variety of media into her work but has a hankering for metal and paper. Her work examines social issues but also explores her own childhood memories and the effects that they have on her today. While steel is an industrial material, paper and pattern are generally used in the home. Using this juxtaposition, McDaniels creates compelling works that fill spaces with unique character and appeal. Her embossed paper work during her residency at Dieu Donné alludes to the past and the process by acting as visual remainders of the diamond grid surfaces upon which they were pressed.
About the Artist
Joyce McDaniel was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and now resides in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a M.F.A. (Sculpture) from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1982; a M.A. (Art History) from Wellesley College, 1976; a B.A. (Fine Arts) summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Boston College in 1973, and a B.B.A. in 1958 from the University of Oklahoma.
Joyce is a full-time Faculty member in Sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she received Merit and Enrichment Awards in 2008, 2005, 2004, and 1991. McDaniel is included in Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona, ed. Virginia Watson-Jones. Her works are included in private collections and public museums such as: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.; the the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
She was a finalist in 2006, for the Commission at the Moakley Cancer Center, Boston Medical Center. Her work was included in 2004, in the Registry at the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA. She was a Visiting Artist and Juror at the Hamblet Award & Lecture, 2003, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She received a New England Foundations for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship in 1995, when she was also a finalist for a Public Commission at the Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA. She was a Workspace Program Artist at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, in 1993, the recipient of a Juror's Award from Ivan Karp for a "Small Works" exhibition in 1990 at Washington Square East Galleries, New York, N.Y., and received commissions from First Night in 1986, 1987, and 1990. In 1984, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship. (Source: Artist’s Website)
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