 Joanne Corneau is primarily known as Johanne Corno
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Johanne Corno (AKA: Corno, AKA: Joanne Corno, AKA: Johanne Corneau, AKA: Joanne Corneau) [1] is a painter, printmaker, graphic artist and muralist. She was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec (a town about 100 miles north of Quebec City) and has lived and worked in New York City since 1992.
Her mediums are acrylic, pencil, colored pencil, pen & ink*, photography, wash*, serigraph*, and mixed mediums. Her best known works are acrylic and mixed medium paintings executed on large (e.g. 60” X 72”) canvases. Her best known subjects are the female face, portraits, celebrity portraits (e.g. Marilyn Monroe) and nudes. Her style is Expressionism*. The AskART illustration is a good example of her work.
She’s a graduate (BA) of the University of Quebec, Montreal (c. 1970 – 1974). After a brief teaching career (about two years), she began painting professionally and has been exhibiting in major galleries since 1984.
Her numerous commercial gallery venues include Morgan Gallery of Fine Arts, Boston; Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto; Left Coast Gallery, Los Angeles; AKA Gallery Montreal; and Opera Gallery, NYC (and worldwide).
She’s also exhibited in the “36th Youth Painter Salon”, Grand Palais, Paris (1985); Quebec Pavilion, Expo 86, Vancouver, Canada (1986); “Outrageous Art”, The Alternative Museum, New York City (1993); and at the Montreal International Jazz Festival (2009).
According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* there are five works by Corno in the permanent collection of the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec City.
Footnote:
[1] Please note: Corno is the name on her website and her paintings, however several variations of her name are in current use; their sources for this biography are noted below:
Canadian Heritage Information Network* (Corno, Johanne Corno and Johanne Corneau)
Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Corno and Joanne Corneau)
Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto (Joanne Corno)
Additional sources:
AKA Gallery, Montreal
Left Coast Gallery, Los Angeles
Cornostudio.com
“Artist Interview: Corno”, by Danielle Langley; Music Is Art [blog] (April 2009)
“Top 100 Women in Quebec”, Chatelaine Magazine (November 2009); Rogers Communications
“40 over Forty”, by Kim Pittaway, More Magazine (February/March 2009); Transcontinental Media
* For more in-depth information about these terms and others, see AskART.com. Glossary http://www.askart.com/AskART/lists/Art_Definition.aspx.
Prepared and contributed by M.D. Silverbrooke.
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