JOY MUNT

Painting, Photography

City: Vancouver, British Columbia

Website: https://www.joymunt.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enjoymunt/

Artist Statement: “My main brush is a power sander. It allows me to approach my landscapes in the matter in which I perceive them, which is a beautiful world of construction, stasis and deterioration and yet somehow polished and smooth. My paintings are an expression – a distillation – of the impressions made on my psyche by the landscapes around me, whether it be the prairies in which I grew up, the West coast of my adult years or the short time I spent in a large Eastern metropolis. My process is evident my art; it’s not something I try to hide, use and then discard, or disguise. The techniques and tools I employ – layers of pigment, sanding, scraping back, lettering – are there, exposed in the finished work. The text I use in my pieces is often found on, or inspired by the text visible on shipping containers, grain elevators, truck, trains; sometimes I use randomly chosen numbers or letters chosen purely for what they bring to the piece graphically or compositionally.”

Biography: Joy Munt is a visual artist working and living in Vancouver BC. She attended the University of Victoria where she received a BFA in Visual arts with a double major in Sociology and a minor in film studies. While at UVic she did her directed studies in photography and video installation. Fred Douglas was her main advisor and his process and way of thinking still affects her art to this day. Joy made the change in her art practice from video to painting around 2004, and over a number of years worked hard at finding her vision in this medium.