We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Joyce Lieberman. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with joyce below.

Alright, Joyce thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

Painting was a great source of joy and concentration for me as a young person.
There was never enough paper in school for all the figurative gesture paintings that I had the energy to create.
I had friends to paint together with.
It was a great way to live.
I went to Art School in Michigan and Texas.
I moved to California because of all the great creative energy. . And got to work.
My work shifted as I developed a style that worked well with decor. I met art consultants who explained an art market I hadn’t considered. This was a market that appreciated what I could do. I understood color and could work swiftly. Gesture with an upward sweep made the paintings sing. To keep my energy up, I would use my whole body like a dance getting the sweep or ashes, first stroke in to lay the structure of a painting.
To get the composition of my UNStill Life paintings to swing, I would think of an infinity loop or a Mobius strip. This would make the underlying structure to add pattern. I have included an image of “Papaya Moon” from that series iny photos.
Other photos show some of the fabric I have had printed from my paintings via spoonflower.com. I share one painting and seated the dress made from a yard of the fabric.
But probably the moment I knew that I would make a career of the arts was when my father told me that I couldn’t make any money from what I was doing and being young, my reply was “Just watch me” and I did. Challenge accepted.

Joyce, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Painting.
Ceramic Vessels.
Collage.
Papier Mache.
Fabric.
Videos.

My paintings and collages have been collected for interiors by hotels, hospitals, corporate settings, and many a private residence.
Color and joy are my strongest emphasis.
I can scale up or down and work in a series.
My MFA is from University of Texas School of Art in Austin and my BFA is from University of Michigan School of Art in Ann Arbor.

After my MFA, my husband Jimm Juback and I took a train from Austin to Los Angeles and arrived on a Sunday morning in August. Back then, to rent a car, we took a bus from the downtown train station to the airport to rent a car. The city was sunny and sleepy on a Sunday morning and the light was magical.
The energy for art was incredible and I knew I had to be here in Los Angeles.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

All of my time is my own. I can sell a service or a product, but I am not selling my time.
As a young person, I felt like I could create a world of my own. As the years roll on, I can save my favorite experiences and continue to add to the choices that I have made.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Creating is magic for me. To present that magic to others requires a different skill.
For many years, I worked with art consultants and interior designers to place my paintings in restaurants, hotels, hospitals, corporate settings and personal residences. I loved the emergency art aspect of this. I created several large series of paintings and collages. Big hits were my UNStill Life paintings,Fiesta series and my Personal Archaeology series of collages.
This worked well until it didn’t.
Ceramic Vessels filled me with energy again. I think I learned to work in series from my Ceramic orientation.

Currently I have been exploring making my paintings into fabric and designing dresses, what’s a girl to wear these days?
I have been experimenting with scale again. Some paintings are really small intimate pieces and some are huge and great for shooting videos of my husband performing his original songs in front of.
I like to use my art, serve food in my home made dishes, wear my paintings, live within a world of things that I have made.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.joycelieberman.com
• Instagram: JoyceFest2015
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/JoyceLiebermanArtist
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@joycelieberman9487
• Other: website social links www.joycelieberman.com/social-links/
  Spoonflower.com/profiles/joyce_lieberman

Image Credits

Joyce Lieberman
Leo Pennock
Jimm Juback