Meet Joyce Lieberman

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Joyce Lieberman. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Joyce below.

Joyce, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?

I love to work out an idea in series. I think I learned that in the ceramic studio.
The craftsman approach to art making requires that.
I applied it to painting and would lay out 10 sheets of the same sized paper and give myself some boundaries for the body of work. This could be subject matter, style, like collage or brushwork or even color
palette.
For many years I worked with art consultants on their interior design with deadlines and commissions for specific color or style. This required an ability to listen and to be on time.
But what fun, I was painting, which is what I wanted to do.
From all the practice in the studio, my wrist and arm and dancing whole body could feel how to scale up in size or down. I could translate a vertical painting of mine easily into a horizontal one and change the palette.
This was like swinging off the vines for me.
It’s a lot easier to apply yourself if you like what you are doing.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

My work is a nonstop adventure in transformation—of materials, of meaning, of self.
I start with painting and ceramics, falling in love with the mess and magic of pigment and clay. But I’m not one to stay in one lane.
My practice has grown into music, video, and sculpture, often using delightfully oddball materials like papier mâché, Plastilina, cardboard, discarded treasures, and Fosshape (which I used to make a crown, obviously).
I’m obsessed with the dance between permanence and play.
My Egg Drop paintings are all about motion and fragility—like catching a moment mid-splat.
My smaller works feature cats lounging in gardens, carousel horses frozen mid-prance, and other dreamy little scenes that feel like secrets waiting to be told.
Then came fabric.
Spoonflower opened a portal, and I dove in headfirst. Now I print my paintings onto textiles and sew them into dresses—yes, actual dresses! It’s wearable art that swishes, twirls, and tells stories with every step. Sculpture meets fashion meets storytelling.
I make costumes for performances, sculpt crowns for imaginary queens, and chase ideas that feel just out of reach. I create something every single day—sometimes with paint, sometimes with thread, sometimes with trash. My process is messy, intuitive, and full of joy.
Right now, I’m archiving a mountain of work that documents this ever-evolving practice. My blog is where I spill the tea—sharing experiments, flops, sparks, and surprises. It’s a peek into my studio, where materials get reimagined and meaning is always on the move.
Come play. Come find the perfect piece for your collection. The studio door is open.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Good question.
Most important is
TIME MANAGEMENT
I learned in Art School how to create sessions for working
and to create a series of works to be able to
view my idea in various ways and to not be so precious with any one piece.
PRIORITIES
I learned to focus on what mattered most and let other things recede to the edges of my thoughts.
This increased the ability to FOCUS
AUTHENTIC SELF This may seem obvious, but the joy of using your own abilities is amazing.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

Collaboration is fantastic. I started long ago with Staci B. Sipe. We made three installations of paper doll plywood cutouts and you can read about it on my blog.
Music at our place includes many musicians and often is a razzle dazzle affair. Check out our videos on YouTube for Joyce Lieberman and Jimm Juback. I am open to working with art consultants, art curators and other artists on projects.

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Image Credits

Easter bonnet portrait by Jimm Juback
Other photos by myself Joyce Lieberman

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