Joetta Maue’s is a multi-faceted artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally with museums and galleries including; the Arts Complex Museum, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, MK Gallery & Institution in Britain, Griffin Museum of Photography and the Masur Museum of Art. Maue’s work has shown in New York, L.A, San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington D.C., Boston, London, Edinburgh and Tokyo and institutions such as Harvard University, Arizona University, University of Rochester, Lesley University and Tufts University. Maue has been an invited lecturer and/or instructor at numerous esteemed institutions including New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, The Japan Society Museum in NYC, Fuller Craft Museum, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Her work and critical writing have been featured in numerous books and journals including Textile Portraits; Peoples and Places in Textile Art, Indie Craft, PUSH Stitchery, Fiber Arts Now Magazine, Martha Stewart Living and the Surface Design Association Journal. She is a Lecturer and an invited instructor at a number of programs and institutions across the country.
Joetta lives in New England with her family.
Contact the artist for work inquiries.
joettamaue@gmail.com
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Maue’s frank exploration of the messy emotions of day to day life is documented in a language of feelings, passions and sentiments that we all understand and speak. This is the crux of her work…The commonality and drama of human experience is there for us all to see if we choose to take the time to observe .
Kathleen O'Hara, curator and writer
Joetta Maue’s wall-sized, multi-media installation “What Moves”… a soothing ensemble of earth-toned photographs, drawings, and embroidery devoted to tracking the sun as it moves through everyday landscapes. Absent of people, their presence is felt everywhere. An emphasis on textures, from fine hair to crumpled bedding, creates a sense of comfort and nostalgia. Maue’s images simulate the oscillations of light and time, inviting viewers to slow their pace and be present in the moment.
Elin Spring. Photography writer and curator
Looking to the work of … Joetta Maue… the materiality and history of the vintage handkerchief renders it a mediating object, one that enables an affective engagement with and intervention on an unwritten archive of women’s labours, pleasures, and communication…Maue’s “reclaimed linens” directly engage with the handkerchief as a receptacle for bodily fluids, which both policed the boundaries of the self and demonstrated human porousness, infused with mess and sentiment…Her work focuses on the memories infused in cloths, but the history of the handkerchief is one of literal infusion, functioning as a container not simply for feeling, but also for bodily fluids. Joetta Maue’s finely wrought works are almost uncomfortably intimate, and force a consideration of the presence of bodies and the impressions left by touch. Using “reclaimed linens,” Maue renders figures who might have touched these surfaces, both invoking her own embodied labour in the density of her stitches and the physical traces of other women’s bodies in these linens…Maue thus gestures towards the limits of cross-temporal connection through material objects.
Mariah Gruner, Critic and Historian
Joetta Maue offers definitive proof that the statement [There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that the point] itself holds true through her imaginative pieces. Joetta believes in the power and beauty of the ordinary, and she combines photography, drawing and stitch to help us all see what she sees.
Mary Carson, Arts writer
Artists are known for delving into the roots of human emotion, and Joetta Maue is no exception. In fact, she thrives on depicting conflicting emotions and contradictions.
Kimberley Nicoletti, journalist