NAME: Joelle Dietrick
BIRTH PLACE: Harrisburg, PA
BIRTH DATE: 5.3.73
BIOGRAPHY
Joelle Dietrick is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University. She received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego where she worked with Jennifer Pastor, Barbara Kruger and Norman Bryson. These experiences followed her time overseas, living in Italy, Bahrain, Germany and China. During these experiences, she became inspired by the unusual stories of female expatriates. Through her paintings, videos and animations, she considers how these adventurous women negotiate their wanderlust with traditional manifestations of ambition. Their proximity or distance to global power players are especially interesting to her, especially when the higher echelons of that jet set are still predominantly male.
Dietrick's work has been shown at the Long March Space in Beijing, the Atlantic Center for the Arts' Harris House Gallery in New Smyrna, Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the ARC Gallery in Chicago, Soho20 in New York City, and MPG Contemporary in Boston. With her work driven by research, she has also shown work at Ohio State University, Indiana University and has a solo exhibition scheduled for Colorado State University in 2010.
Dietrick has received a number of grants and fellowships over the years including Individual Artist Fellowship and Artist Enhancement Grants from Florida Division of Cultural Affairs as well as a Humanities and Russel Grants from the University of California, San Diego. Residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, and the School of the Visual Arts have given her time and space to develop her artwork. The resulting artworks can be found in magazines—New American Paintings, Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, and Drain Magazine —and online at http://joelledietrick.com.
