Joan Wulf is a painter and mixed media artist based in Los Angeles who reductively explores the nexus of nature and science. She focuses in particular on the elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal.  Once points of departure for her paintings, the elements have transformed into “collaborators" in Wulf’s studio practice. She has variously burned, torched, sprayed, oxidized, ripped, glued, and bent materials in her quest to distill nature to its most basic state. The resulting forms reveal the brutal and entropic processes that mold our natural world and underscore our fraught relationship with its elemental forces.

Wulf holds a BS from UC Davis and a BFA and MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited at Themes+Projects Gallery in San Francisco, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery in Los Angeles, Villa Di Donato in Naples, Italy and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Her work can be found in many public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. She is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association.