Joetta Currie was born on a small farm in Kentucky. When she wasn't shelling peas or feeding the chickens, you could find her drawing pictures for the outhouse wall. It wasn't ideal gallery space, but it did provide a captive, even contemplative audience. In the early years she worked as a narrative artist, telling a small story, revealing bits of personal information while entertaining with vivid color and the malleable composition of the female form. Joetta used humor as she would color, line or shape; to suggest, expose and define a dichotomy of ideas, prejudices and...more
