EDGE GALLERY:  Joan MacDonald has been a member of the Denver cooperative, Edge Gallery, since 1997.  The artist run gallery has been a co-op since 1992 and was a commercial gallery 1989-92.  The gallery is considered an "alternative" gallery and shows innovative and cutting "edge" works from its twenty-two full members and eleven associate members.  Edge Gallery:  3658 Navajo Street, Denver, CO 80211

Joan 2010

Kathryn, Joan, Michelle--July 2010

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2011        Edge Gallery:  NEFA Project (installation w sound), Denver, CO

2011        Performance Art--NEFA Project--with collaborators--

                 Civic Center Park, Denver, CO

2010        Edge Gallery-The Potential of Broken

2009        Edge Gallery, An Incomplete Taxonomy of Chaos, Denver,

2008        Edge Gallery, COOP, Denver, CO

2007        Edge Gallery, Monuments and Ruins, Denver, CO

2006        The Art Library, Durango Arts Center,

                 First Draft, Durango, CO

2005        University of Montana, Gallery of Visual Arts, First Draft,

                 Missoula, MT

2005        Smoky Hill Library, First Draft, Denver, CO

2005        Edge Gallery, The Detroit Connection, Denver, CO

2004        Edge Gallery, Fictions and Factions,

                 Denver, CO

2003        Edge Gallery, First Draft, Denver, CO

2003        Stanton Gallery, Littleton Town Hall Arts  

                 Center, Hybrid, Littleton, CO

2002        Edge Gallery, Window Action Project,

                 Denver, CO      

2001-02  Denver Parks and City Streets, Window Action Project, (9

                 performance art pieces), Denver metro area 

200          Edge Gallery, Hybrid, Denver, CO

2000        Edge Gallery, Say, Denver, CO

1999        Edge Gallery, Strata, Denver, CO

1998        Edge Gallery, Creative Dissonance,

                 Denver, CO

1992       CU Art Galleries, Reframing the Past,

                Boulder, CO

1991        Context Gallery, Performance: 92

                Cents/Day, Denver, CO

1991        Grant Street Art Studios Gallery, Fences

                Offences Offencive, Denver, CO

1990        Edge Gallery, US37858, Denver, CO

1989        Spark Gallery, Couples, Installation &

                Performance, Denver, CO

1989        The Pub, University of Denver;  

                Performance Art pieces: Practicing Zen, 

                Cocktail Party, Today’s  Woman, Art, 

                Artist Art, Denver, CO

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011         Is this how I look, tbellphotographic, Denver, CO

2011         Narratives, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO

2011         It's all here in Black and White--

                  small works by women photographers

                  tbellphotographic, Denver, CO

2011         Art as Nourishment, Comfort Cafe, Denver, CO

2010         Home Art Show sponsored by The Community 

                  Arts Connection, Park Hill, Denver, CO

2010         Teal Art Gallery, Breckenridge, CO

                  University of Denver Alumni Show

2010         Pairings, Edge Gallery, Co

2009         Northern Migration, Edge Gallery, CO

2009         Southern Migration, Adams State

                 College Art Gallery, Alamosa, CO

2009         abecedarian gallery, Word Works, 

                 Denver, CO

2009         Edge Gallery, Edgestremists--36"x6", 

                 Denver, CO

2008         Edge Gallery, Photographic Edge,

                 Denver, CO

                 Edge Gallery, Edge Members Sculpture

                 Show, Denver, CO

                 abecedarian gallery, Interweavings,

                 Denver, CO

2007         Zip Gallery, Grant Street Reunion Show,

                 Denver, CO

2007         Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Denver, CO

2007         Edge Gallery, Kari Edwards Memorial

                 Exhibition, Denver, CO

2006-07    Central Cultural Casa Borda,  Mexico

                 Edge va a México, Taxco, Guerrero,

                 Mexico

2007         Zip Gallery, Grant Street Reunion Show, Denver, CO

2006-07    Denver Public Library, Main Library, C700.978883 A 792-2006 DPL, Denver, CO

2006-11    Pine Gallery, Pine Grove, CO

2006        Spire Studios, Beacon, NY

2006        Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Denver, CO

2006        Edge Gallery, Auction, Denver, CO

2005        Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Denver, CO

2005        Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, 2005 Own Your Own, Pueblo,

                 CO

2005        Center for Visual Arts, Back to Back, MSCD Faculty 

                 Show, Denver, CO

2005        Asheville, NC, Exchange, Group show

2004        Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Denver, CO

2004        Three Local Collectors, University of Colorado Art Gallery,

                 Colorado Springs, CO

2004        Emmanuel Gallery, ZIPCO, Denver, CO  

2004        Edge Gallery, Commemorative group show for

                 Roger Beltrami

2003        Edge Gallery, 12 x 12, Annual members’ show

2003        Denver Civic Center Theater, Edge members’ group show

2003-1998 Zook Building, Studio Tours/Group shows, Denver, CO

2002,01,00 Edge Gallery, Blue Light Special, Denver, CO

2001        Project Safeguard Benefit Art Auction, organized

                 by MorphGallery and LaRumba, Denver, CO

2001        Morph Gallery, Denver, CO

2001        Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Copy Cat, Denver, CO

2000        Edge Gallery, Exquisite Corpse, Denver, CO

2000,99,98 Edge Gallery, Edgestremists, Denver, CO

1999        Edge Gallery, Zippy Bugs and Bones, (Collaboration with

                 Mark Brasuell), Denver, CO

1998        Edge Gallery, Text by the Foot, Denver, 

                 CO

1997        Edge Gallery, Member’s Small Works,

                Denver, CO

                Edge Gallery, Three Lamps, Three

                Tables, Three Lives, performance poetry,

                Denver, CO

1996        Colorado Aids Project Annual Auction, 

                Denver, CO

1994        Edge Gallery, Look Ma, No Hands,

                Denver, CO

                Boulder Artists Gallery, Look Ma, No

                Hands, Denver,CO

1993        Edge Gallery, Invitational Show, Denver, 

                CO

1992        Edge Gallery, Homophobia Show, 

                Denver, CO

1992        ASA Gallery, Group Show, University of

                New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1991        University of Southern Colorado Art

                Gallery, Group Show, Pueblo, CO

1991        CORE New Art Space, Social

                Commentary, Denver, CO

1991        Shwayder Art Gallery, University of

                Denver, Alumni Show

1991        Grant Street Art Studios Gallery,

                Member’s Show, Denver, CO

1989/90   Shwayder Art Gallery, University of

                Denver, Student Shows, Denver, CO

1989        Ice House Annual Show, Denver, CO

                City Spirit, Woodcuts by DU Printmakers, 

                Denver, CO

                Kyle Belding Gallery, Outsider’s Show,

                Denver, CO

1989        CORE New Art Space, Reading Between 

                the Lines, Denver, CO

                The Pub, University of Denver, Variations

                of Pig, Denver, CO

1989, 88  Pirate, A Contemporary Art Oasis,

                Outsider’s Show, Denver, CO

1988        Pirate, A Contemporary Art Oasis, El Dia

                De Los Muertos, Denver, CO

1987        Lincoln Center, Poudre Valley Art League Annual

                Regional Show, Ft. Collins, CO

1985-86   Studio Art Galleries, Member’s Show,

                Denver, CO

1983        Gilpin County Art Association, 36thAnnual 

                Exhibition,

                Central City, CO

1981, 82  Denver Symphony Designer Showhouse, Denver 

                Symphony Orchestra Art Exhibition, Denver, CO

1982        House Hodgkins Gallery, Group Show, 

                Littleton, CO

1982        Colorado Graphic Arts Center, Rocky

                Mountain  Regional Print Show, exhibited

               at Colorado Institute of Art, Denver, CO

 

August 2011--Ziggy in Studio--

NEFA Project--Work in Progress