Joianne Bittle

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Jackrabbit #5
Joianne Bittle, 2009

Joianne Bittle has an awesome job (Exhibition Assistant at the American Museum of Natural History) where she gets to paint, draw and make dioramas. Wow. But she's also an accomplished artist in oil and wax, as these paintings attest. Her series of beetle paintings, A Royal Family, were the result of six years of life observation.

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A Royal Family (Goliath Beetle)
Joianne Bittle, 2003

Joianne Bittle currently has work appearing in Entomologia, curated by M of Curious Expeditions! Check it out if you're in NYC - the show runs through April 4.

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