JoAnne Lobotsky is an American artist who builds her expressionistic paintings with color and texture. The texture in her work is created by mixing acrylic paint with various gel mediums and pastes, sand, and sometimes other materials. Her work is driven by an intuitive process and experimentation toward a natural resolution in the finished work. Lobotsky grew up on a Hudson Valley farm, so nature's details, physicality and growth processes as well as landscape are her main inspirations.

Lobotsky has been a practicing artist in New York City and recently the Hudson Valley for over three decades. She studied sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York City with the mentorship of Alice Aycock, Judy Pfaff and Elizabeth Murray and graduated with a BFA cum laude. She also studied printmaking at the University of Colorado at Boulder and painting at the Art Students League of New York. In the recent past she has had two solo shows and won several prizes in group shows for her work. Her work is in private collections in the US and Europe.

“Topographies, earthy texture and earth seen from above are the things I return to often for inspiration. There is also a micro-macro aspect to the abstract Dystopolises surfaces: we may be viewing the surface of the earth through a microscope or a telescope. "Dystopolis" is a made up word which refers to a possibly future, possibly post-human earth. It refers to our alteration of the earth with our projects and buildings and effect on the environment. These paintings are very textural and objectlike in that they do not portray illusory space. The focus of these works is materiality, texture, process and experimentation. The immediacy of the texture pushes the paintings into the same tactile space and time we inhabit. I come from a sculpture background so that informs the object quality of these paintings.”