Over the past two decades, Greenbaum has developed a singular body of work including painting, drawing, and sculpture, that while instantly recognizable in gesture and spirit, has remained relatively enigmatic. Where her earlier paintings were often characterized by a highly concentrated and linked cluster of forms set against an expansive blank canvas, the new works are Greenbaum's decidedly most dense and labored paintings, confidently mixing disparate materials in remarkably forceful and intricate compositions.

Greenbaum's newest paintings reveal an influx of new forms, colors, and information. Though familiar shapes and past configurations inevitably emerge - architectural maps, collapsing grids, and interlocking networks - no two paintings are alike. Greenbaum moves freely between thin and transparent layers and thick and opaque textures, often collapsing foreground and background, shifting toward a more disorienting, in-between space. Her use of color and materials, now looser and more assured, finds inks, markers and flashe pushed against oil drips and washes, coexisting in a confrontational, a-hierarchical realm. These are regenerative paintings that reveal themselves slowly, with shapes giving way to new systems, fluid gestures frenetically painted over, spaces activated and restructured, and are conceivably both durational and limitless.

Over the past twenty years Joanne Greenbaum has exhibited internationally at venues including PS1 MoMA, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, Kunsthalle, Basel, and Whitechapel Gallery, London. A career-spanning survey of Greenbaum's work was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich and travelled to Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany in 2008/2009. Recent shows include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas Gallery in Houston, and D'Amelio Terras in New York. Greenbaum's work is represented by greengrassi in London, UK, Nicolas Krupp in Basel, Switzerland, Crone Gallery in Berlin, Van Horn Gallery in Dusseldorf, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, and Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York.