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About The Artist  |
Joan's 'This Green Earth Mirror' is featured in the July 2009 issue of Architectural Digest." |
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About The Artist |
Joan's 'This Green Earth Mirror' is featured in the July 2009 issue of Architectural Digest." |
Award-winning New York City artist Joan Rothchild Hardin is known for her luscious, custom hand painted tiles. In 2008 she branched out to add a sophisticated line of one-of-a-kind designer mirrors incorporating her art tiles, upholstery fabrics, exotic textiles, decorative nail heads, and paint.
The output from the Hardin Tiles studio in Soho exemplifies an unabashed love of lush colors, textile patterns, textures, and visual humor. Some of the influences on Joan’s work have been Silk Road and Japanese textiles, Persian and Indian carpet designs, and the French Impressionist painters. She understands the way color and light from well-chosen design materials can imbue a room with happiness – and enjoys helping create the experience of peaceful beauty that environments bearing the obvious touch of a human’s hand deliver.
Joan’s residential and corporate tile commissions include three veterinary hospitals, a yoga studio, and residential projects in New York City. Individual art tiles have also been purchased by private clients in the US and France.
Hardin Tiles have been exhibited in galleries and shows around the country - including Pewabic Pottery in Detroit; Moravian Tile Works in Doylestown, PA; Oakland Museum in Oakland, CA; AMACO/Brent NCECA Invitational Exhibition in Indianapolis; and internationally at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Joan’s tile work has been featured in a Symposium on Contemporary Tile Makers sponsored by the Tile Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, and in several art books, including 500 Tiles (Lark Books, 2008), A Glaze of Color (Watson-Guptill, 2004), Ceramic Tile Art for the Home (Schiffer, 2001), and many GUILD Sourcebooks. Her handbuilt ceramic work was featured in Handbuilt Ceramics (Lark Books, 1997).
Joan and her work were the subject of a Craft Insider interview in 2008. In 1991 her article on two Australian ceramic artists appeared in Ceramics Monthly.
The American Art Clay Company purchased a Hardin Tile for its Permanent Ceramics Collection and has featured Joan’s tiles in their ads in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated and in their 1999-2001 catalogues.
Hardin Tiles were featured in the MADE section of the 2009 Architectural Digest HOME DESIGN SHOW at Pier 94 in New York City.
For many years she was a co-owner and president of Brooklyn Artisans Gallery, an artisan owned and operated fine crafts gallery in Brooklyn, until she resigned in 2003 to devote more time to her studio work.
In 1999 Joan’s tiles won an Architecture Award in the Silverhawk Fine Craft Competition.
Her work is represented in the slide registries of The Tile Heritage Foundation and the New York City Percent for Art Program.
Joan welcomes collaboration with interior designers, architects, and homeowners to create unique custom tiles for site-specific design projects: back splashes, murals, shower enclosures, window sills, and fireplace surrounds, tiles to display as art objects – and designer mirrors.
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