Johanne Woodcock’s practice includes interior design, architecture and fine arts. Her current design work in White Box/Black Box design is focused on ‘Meaningful Ornament’. This work explores opportunities for shaping space with color and ornament. What is the potential of ornament today? What is meaningful ornament? The White Box/ Black Box Design study is organized around three strategies: Abstraction: Tints, Shades and Shadow, Illusion: Complementary Contrasts and Narrative: Saturated Color.
Johanne is a certified Interior Designer and licensed Architect, practicing in New York City. Johanne has worked in residential and commercial interior design, including projects for New York University’s Stern School of Business, Rallye Motors’ Rolls Royce and Mercedes Benz Dealership, University of Pennsylvania Club in Manhattan and the Bank of East Asia.
Johanne Woodcock is an Associate Professor of Interior Design, at Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School. Previously in her role as Director, Johanne edited the annual publication, ‘WORK’, which showcases interiors by AAS students and faculty. All 9 volumes of ‘Work’ can be viewed at parsonsinteriorwork.org. Johanne holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design.
Johanne has a longstanding commitment to sustainable design in architecture and interiors. This interest began many years ago, working to incorporate alternative energy proposals for a residential community located on the west side of Manhattan.
Johanne has initiated a website to encourage and provoke innovative exploration and research of decoration as a function of design, www.insideinside.org. Woodcock’s design research work is focused on the potential of painted walls to create interior experience. An introduction to her research of painted walls can be found in her curated post on insideinside.org.
In addition, through a series of paintings, she explores the design of modern everyday interiors and the objects that define these universal environments. Johanne most recently has exhibited her paintings at Henry Street Settlement, Hopper House Gallery and Inverness Center for the Arts in Cape Breton, Canada. Invited to exhibit in the Inverness Small Treasures Exhibition in July 2018, Guest Juror Ray Cronin selected Johanne as one of two Juror’s Choice. As a juror’s choice, Johanne was awarded a simultaneous solo exhibition. These paintings, influenced by medieval and Early Renaissance Italian predellas, depict contemporary stories and combine her wide interests in interiors, social and cultural history and design.