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Gallery Notes from the West Valley Art Museum

A Passionate Vision:
The Paintings of Joella Jean Mahoney

Once in a great while there comes along an artist who’s vision is so clear, who’s visual voice is so strong and who’s sensitivity and expression resonates with just about everyone who encounters his or her art.

Joella Jean Mahoney is one of these artists.

Her vision began when she stepped off the train in 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona and knew immediately as did Georgia O’Keefe in New Mexico, that this was to be her place.

My first encounter with Joella was in 1997 when this Museum (still the Sun Cities Museum of Art) gave her a retrospective covering 30 years of her career from 1965 to 1995.

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She was a mature artist then and her work only seems to have become stronger in the last 11 years.

Selecting works for this exhibit was as usual a joy for me to do. I thought that this time, however I would include more works that had