Low Impact Painter

Joelle Provost is a low impact artist and wildlife advocate. Her art works center around in humanity and in earth restoration, through underscoring issues of our collective impact, as a road to solutions. Her recent collaborative reclaimed sculpture titled The Lives of Animals asks us to examine our habitual modes of operating, in hopes the viewer will realize their power as consumer. All of her paintings are made on upcycled canvas with donated high quality oil paints, as a statement, taking the hands out of big corporations and placing faith in a new type of economy, built on a circular model. The content in her paintings often holds the dual truth of both collapse and regeneration happening simultaneously, as a means of realizing our potential to facilitate a new world based on regenerative principles, while grieving what is lost.

Her recent works are made from home in her studio next to her urban homestead where she is building a long term certified wildlife habitat, as part of an effort to reduce the impact of her family. Her work is now permanently featured in the gallery, “A Loft of One’s Own” in Emeryville. In 2024 her works were exhibited at Two Blocks of Art in San Francisco, and in Little Raven Gallery for a show curated by Dorian Munroe titled “Seeds Split Before They Bloom”. In 2023 Joelle co-hosted a Regenerative Gala as an effort to celebrate collective movement towards earth restoration. Her works have been featured in the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Good Mother Gallery in Oakland, ROOM art gallery in Mill Valley, & Spacewomb Gallery in Manhattan. She holds an MFA in Art and Integrated Media from Brooklyn College.