Joella Jean Mahoney

Mahoney is Professor of Art Emerita, University of La Verne where she began developing the art Department n 1964. She holds a B.A. in Art from Northern Arizona University and an MFA in painting from Claremont Graduate University. Mahoney is known for her dramatic, large scale landscapes in oil. Even though she has a flower series, a figure series, and a horse series, the canyon landscape of the Colorado Plateau has become the major motif of her paintings. These landscapes contain all the elements of her huge originality: the spontaneous brush strokes, the inventive shapes, lambent color, and monumental scale of work and vision. Mahoney's distinctive style bridges realism and abstraction, and uses color and structure to share with the viewer her experience of nature and life.

Mahoney has been painting for over 50 years. GVG Contemporary is delighted to represent her in Santa Fe.