SOLO SHOWS

1957 Pictures on Exhibit, Lynn Kottler Gallery, New York, NY

1963 Joan Tausik, Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

1952 Famous Artists’ Costume Ball, The Provincetown Art Association, Town Hall

1957 12th Annual Exhibit, Annual Fire Island Art Association Show, Ocean Beach, NY - Awarded First Prize

1958 3rd Annual Exhibition, Lower Eastside Independent Artists, New York, NY

1961 15th Annual Art Exhibition and Sale of Contemporary Art, Benefit Scholarship Fund, New York, NY

1962 Inaugural Art Show, Overseas Press Club of America, New York, NY

1962 6th Annual Eastern States Art Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA

1962 27th Annual Mid-Year Show, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio - Shown alongside artists: Hans Hofmann; Elaine DeKooning; Chaim Gross; Georgia O’Keeffe

1962 University of Nebraska Art Association [more info to come]

1962 Provincetown Art Association [more info to come]

1963 Summer Exhibition, 16th Annual Creative Arts Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - Shown alongside artist: Hans Hoffman

1963 Exhibition of Paintings Eligible For Purchase Under the Childe Hassam Fund, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1964 An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art, The National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1964 Artists Select, Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Study Wing, New York, NY - Shown alongside artists: Josef Abers; Robert Motherwell; Alfonso Ossorio; Barnett Newman; Ad Reinhardt; Ben Shahn

1964 18th Annual Purchase Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Illinois Wesleyan University School of Art, Bloomington, IL

1984 The Forty-Sixth Annual Guild Hall Artists Members’ Exhibition, East Hampton, NY

PRESS

“Joan Tausik’s first solo show at Lynn Kottler’s introduces an artist fond of floating shapes and aquarelle effects in her oils. Dawn and the contrasty black and white painting, Crucible, are probably the best. On view to March 16” [Pictures on Exhibit: World Wide Views of the Art Shows, March 1957]

“Joan Tausik, a former pupil of Amadeo Ozenfant, George Grosz and Edwin Dickinson, is showing 23 oils and four drawings at the Lynn Kottler Gallery, 2 E. 65th St., Monday through March 16” [New York Post, March 3, 1957]

“At Lynn Kottler Galleries Joan Tausik shows her tender, dream-filled surrealism. Her exotic visions have a nostalgic charm, a sadness, a long and a vague drifting of feeling. Hers is a fine woman’s world” [United Press, “Art in Review”, March 1957]

“Joan Tausik [Kottler Gallery; March 4-16] moods oils and pastels in liquefied color forming clouds and tentative contours that seem inertly to resist either aerial or aqueous currents; the colors are pleasant and the forms well-ordered, but the possibilities of so demure a debut seem very limited. $75-$350” [Art News, March 1957]

“Her work embraces a wide range of subject matter giving full rein to her rich and fertile imagination. Symbolism and surrealism predominate in a large measure but their meaning is fully realized by virtue of her strong sense of design and accomplished draftsmanship.”

“These paintings have an inner quality, quite unusual in a young artist. Poetry and sensitivity abound throughout.”

"In “The Crucible” one finds great vigor and directness. Equally noteworthy are “From The Sea” a pastel of rare delicacy and “Dawn” a highly original interpretation.” [East of Fifth, March 1957, Vol. 2, No. 53]

“Tausik: In such works as Sea Garden, Joan Tausik proves herself to be a delicate and sensitive colorist with little interest in form. Faint intimations of form which could be flora and fauna or could be a floating spiderweb can be observed here and there in this and other paintings, the faintest glimpse of a solid in a slightly milky, shallowly translucent wall of color. These are more interesting however, than the sky-seascapes where the color is applied to the surface…” [incorporating Arts Digest, March 1957] - Paul Goodman write up for solo show Pictures on Exhibit, 1957 [see excerpt in binder]

“I know Miss Tausik’s paintings very well. Her beautiful and personal work is stimulating to me, a former instructor of hers. I take pleasure in writing this.” [Edwin Dickinson, Instructor in drawing and painting, The Art Students League of New York]

“Congratulations, your paintings awake a half forgotten world between memory and dreams. I enjoyed seeing them very much… [Jack ____?, Personal Note]