Joanne M. Killian
Margate, New Jersey, USA
AWARDS/HIGHLIGHTS
2014
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Featured artist in an Ocean City show themed around Henri Matisse.
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First place for 'Sunset' @ the Ventnor Art Show and continued to compete at the state level.
2013
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Second place for 'Morning Mist' @ the Ventnor Art Show.
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Featured artist for "Rebecca' @ the Ocean City Arts Center's Alfred Hitchcock theme show.
2012
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Second place for 'Marshes' @ the Ventnor Arts Show.
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Honorable mention for 'Aruba Garden Center' @ Ocean City Fine Arts League.
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Featured artist for '14th Street Pier' @ Ocean City Art Center's 100th anniversary art show.
2010
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Judge's Award for 'Summer Rain' @ the Atlantic City Art Show.
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1st Place for 'Tuscany' @ the National Arts Show.
Joanne Killian is a native of Atlantic City, NJ. As an adult, life took her in many directions. For 12 years she crisscrossed the surrounding states before coming home to her beloved Jersey Shore. She has resided for 30 years in Margate City N.J. with her husband Patrick.
Joanne worked as a successful real estate broker associate for 25 years, all the while dabbling in her love of art. Her inspiration for painting came from her garden. Her first love was gardening and through that the two were complimentary hobbies. She began painting beautiful flower pots and table linens.
At the urging of her children and grandchildren and those who saw her creations, she began to take her artwork seriously. Up to that point she had been strictly self taught. Seven years ago, she began her training in earnest taking classes in oil painting, along with other workshops in different media, such as acrylic and watercolor.
So far Joanne has exhibited her work at the Ocean City Fine Arts League, the Hammonton Arts Center, Garden Pier in Atlantic City, Barclay Farmstead Museum in Cherry Hill, the Perkins Center of the Arts in Moorestown, the Ocean City Arts Center, the Avalon Arts Center, and Mixellaneous in Voorhees.