Close Up Radio Spotlights Artist Joan Truckenbrod

Ashland, OR – Joan Truckenbrod is credited as being one of the earliest pioneers of digital art in the 1960s. Known for her digitally-assisted weavings, Joan’s art creates an intuitive conduit between technology and nature.

“My studio practice began creating coded algorithmic drawings,” says Joan. “I saw that algorithms were not a hard set of instructions but fluid, allowing me to transform ideas into new forms. There was a spontaneity that was related to this process.”

Joan Truckenbrod: Digital Fibers – 1975 to Present collects some of Joan’s early coded algorithmic drawings and textiles from the seventies and eighties, her digital paintings from the nineties, fiber art from the early two-thousands and her current work of woven tapestries. Joan’s art captures phenomena in nature through “digital rematerializations.”

Joan Truckenbrod: Digital Fibers – 1975 to Present is three separate galleries: the first gallery collects Joan’s early drawings that have never been exhibited before; the second gallery includes Joan’s current hand-digital computational tapestries that combine analog and digital programming; the third gallery includes a combination of five large archival digital compositions and two smaller ones that confront the trauma of being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer.

For more information, visit www.joantruckenbrod.com.

Joan Truckenbrod: Digital Fibers – 1975 to Present continues through September 16, 2021 at the Schneider Museum of Art. Visit sma.sou.edu