Joni
Falk realist painter of still life and landscapes, has lived in Phoenix,
Arizona since 1960. She grew up in Chicago, and is a graduate of
Marquette University In Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It was the Southwest culture and history that
provided the ingredients that Compelled her to seek a full-time career
in the field of art. Joni has become well known throughout the United
States and Canada for her diversity of Subject from Traditional Floral
still lifes, Western still lifes, Pueblo or Plains Indian Landscapes and
Indian Figures.
Joni’s many exhibitions include showings at The
National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, the
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cheyenne’s Old West
Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, the Desert Caballeros
Museum in Wickenburg,
Arizona, the McAllen Museum, McAllen, Texas and the
Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
She has been featured in the following books and
Publications:
The Best of Flower Painting 1997
Energizing Your Paintings with
Color 1993
Tony Couch’s Keys to Successful Painting 1992
Southwest Art- December 1985
Art West Sept. /Oct. 1981
Art of the West Magazine Sept. /Oct. 1991
Phoenix Magazine, June 1997
American Artist’s “Workshop” Magazine July 2005
Art West Magazine May/June 2005
Southwest Art Magazine, August 2005
International Artist Magazine Vol. 2 “100 Ways to Paint a Still
Life”
In addition to 19 limited Edition Prints, Leanin’
Tree Card Company, Boulder, Colorado has published numerous works in
cards, calendars and Prints. She and her husband Bob owned and
operated several businesses:
“The Hobby Hut’ 1966-1970
The Falk Gallery – 1970-1972
Studio B (1972 where she began teaching beginning
oil painting, until 1987) now called Studio B Engraving operated by her
Son Bob who engraves nameplates for Artist’s paintings.
She was a member of the Scottsdale Artist’s
School Board of Trustees 1996-1997
Began teaching workshops at the Scottsdale
Artist’s School in 1986-Present Awards:
1976- Purchase Award, First National Bank of
Arizona
1977- George Phippen Memorial inside Invitational
Show Gold Medal (oil)
1978- Purchase Award, Favell Museum, Klamath Falls,
Oregon
1979 – Silver Medal (oil) – George Phippen
Memorial Inside Invitational Show
1980 – Silver Medal (mixed media) George Phippen
Memorial Inside Show
1981 – Purchase Award, McAllen International
Museum, McAllen, TX
1988 – Museum Purchase Award, Cheyenne
Governor’s Invitational Art
Show, Cheyenne, WY
2002 – Silver Medal (oil) Western Artists of
America Show Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2003 – Bronze Medal (oil) Western Artists of
America Show Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Exhibits:
1981-1992 – Peppertree Western Art Show, Santa
Inez, CA
1984-2007 – Haley Library Show, Midland, TX
1998 – Present – Settlers West Miniature Show,
Great American West Show, and Summer Show, Tucson, AZ
1988 and 1989 – Invited along with American
Artists and Cartoonists around the Country to hand paint a wooden Easter
Egg to be displayed at the White House- collection remains on display at
the Smithsonian.
1989 –Present – National Museum of Wildlife Art
Miniature Show
1992-1993 – Women Artists and the West Show and
Sale at The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
1993 - American Women Artists Show “Women Artists
and the West” Exhibit- National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
1999 -2005 – Great American Artists Show,
Cincinnati, OH
2001 – 2005 – Geneva, Switzerland –Art in the
Embassies Program
2001 – Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg, AZ
– “In Celebration, A Century
of Arizona Women Artists” Exhibit
traveled to the Sky Harbor Art Program Gallery displayed at Terminal 4
– Phoenix, AZ
2005- American Women Artists Show – Santa Fe, NM
2005 – Peppertree Western Art Show, Santa Inez, CA
2007 – Cheyenne Governor’s Invitational
2007 – National Museum of Wildlife Art Miniature
Show
2006-2007 – “Cowgirl Up” Invitational at the
Desert Caballeros Museum Wickenburg, AZ
2007 – Permanent Collection of the Pearce Western
Art Museum, Corsicana, TX