Untitled (nude on floor-nude seated on table)

Joyce Wahl Treiman

In this untitled lithograph of two nudes, arranged unexpectedly in the corner of an echoing room, Joyce Wahl Treiman harnesses the expressive feel of a Schiele interior while also maintaining a style all of her own, focusing as much on the furniture and drapery as the uneroticized nude human figures.

The work of painter and printmaker Joyce Wahl Treiman ranges from the benign to the bizarre, and is always arresting. As a child her artwork showed earmarks of the genius, and she was put into adult art courses while still in elementary school. As a result, her work features the stylistic stamp of an artist so confident in their technical ability that they do not waste time agonizing over whether their penstroke is sound; Treiman simply dives into a composition’s atmosphere with an all-encompassing fire.