Joice M. Hall (born 1943) is a Canadian artist from
Alberta, now based in
British Columbia. She is known primarily as a
landscape painter of large panoramas.
Life
Hanak was born in
Edmonton,
Alberta.
She married John Hall in 1964 and earned a diploma from the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta University of the Arts) in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
in 1965.
At the school, she was taught painting techniques by
Illingworth Kerr and appreciated that through him, she learned of the
Group of Seven.
Hall lived in Calgary for almost 40 years. She and her husband, artist
John Hall John Hall may refer to:
Academics
* John Hall (NYU President) (fl. c. 1890), American academic
* John A. Hall (born 1949), sociology professor at McGill University, Montreal
* John F. Hall (born 1951), professor of classics at Brigham Young Unive ...
, also owned a home in
San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico, where they spent half of the year during the 1990s.
In 1999, they moved to West
Kelowna
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, in the
Okanagan region of British Columbia.
Career
Hall has earned recognition for her landscape paintings, often using a
panoramic format.
A 2001 review in the ''
Calgary Herald
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History
''The ...
'' wrote that Hall's work appears to explore "the representation of male and female in nature and culture".
Hall's work has been featured in group exhibitions since 1969
in such galleries as the
Mendel Art Gallery
The Mendel Art Gallery was a major creative cultural centre in City Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Operating from 1964 to 2015, it housed a permanent collection of more than 7,500 works of art. The gallery was managed by the city-owned Saskatoon G ...
in
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan (1976); the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre in
Kingston
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Places
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** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
,
Ontario (1977); and the
Whyte Museum
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in
Banff, Alberta (1979).
Hall's first solo exhibition was held at the Off Centre Centre in Calgary in 1981.
The exhibit featured paintings of male
nudes.
In 2000, Hall was elected to membership in the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
In 2010, Patricia Ainsley curated for the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia a 40-year
retrospective
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exhibition of her work, titled ''Surreal, Real, Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall''.
Hall was in Gwaii Haanas for the Artists in Gwaii Haanas Residency Program in 2016, a two week residency held in Gwaii Haanas by the
Haida Gwaii Museum and
Parks Canada
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. In 2017 there was an exhibition titled, ''Artists in Gwaii Haanas'', at the Haida Gwaii Museum of the work created by the 3 artists in the 2016 residency. In 2018 she had an exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery of her large painting installation inspired by that residency. The exhibition was titled ''GWAII HAANAS:Islands and Sacred Sites''.
In 2024, Wallace Galleries in Calgary held a show of 15 of her paintings titled ''Joice M. Hall - Nocturnal Light''.
Selected public commissions
*1978: ''Alberta Panorama'',
Government of Canada Building;
*1982: ''Floral Landscape #3, Foothills Hospital, Calgary;
Selected public collections
* Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton;
*
Canada Council Art Bank;
*
Glenbow Museum, Calgary;
*
Illingworth Kerr Gallery,
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary;
*
Remai Modern
Remai Modern is a public art museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The art museum is situated along the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River, at the River Landing development in Saskatoon's Central Business District. The museum's build ...
, Saskatoon;
*
University of Calgary;
*
University of Lethbridge;
Further reading
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Joice M.
1943 births
Living people
Artists from Edmonton
Canadian landscape painters
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
20th-century Canadian painters
20th-century Canadian women artists
21st-century Canadian painters
21st-century Canadian women artists