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"It's all about the light and the high drama that can be created. For now, the subjects I choose to illustrate this dramatic light are baskets. It's a single theme, but every subject is different. The light beautifully illuminates the basket, then passes through it to create a never ending array of light-speckled shadows. By painting them as empty vessels, I allow the viewer to mentally fill the basket with whatever they choose."

 
Joe graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Boston, and for close to 40 years he has been an award-winning graphic designer. "I will probably always be a designer, it's in my blood." But in 2008 he officially added fine art painter to his title.

Joe describes his still life paintings as contemporary realism, and his medium is acrylics on canvas. His paintings are created in a tenebrist style. Both tenebroso (Italian) and its English equivalent, tenebrism, refer to a style of painting characterized by high contrast between light and shade. Frequently the main subjects of tenebrist paintings are illuminated by a single source of light, as if a spotlight shone upon them, leaving other areas in darkness. In order to achieve this dramatic lighting effect, Joe first paints the canvas dark, and then begins to paint the light areas of his subject, allowing the dark background to become the shadow areas. These dramatic paintings of baskets in the tenebrist style have become his trademark.

ART FESTIVALS
2008
Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Winter Park, FL - 3 Patron Awards
Windermere Art Festival, Winderemere, FL - Best of Show

2009
Gasparilla Art Festival, Tampa, FL
Maitland Rotary Art Festival, Maitland, FL - Merit Award
Art Beth-el Festival, St. Petersburg, FL

2010
Images Art Festival, New Smyrna Beach, FL - Honorable Mention
Art Beth-el Festival, St. Petersburg, FL
Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Winter Park, FL


ONE MAN SHOWS
2008
Winter Park University Club, Winter Park, FL

2009
Orange County Administration Building, Orlando, FL

2010
Merrill Lynch Corporate Offices, Winter Park, FL

 

GALLERY SHOWS
2009
Infinity Gallery International Juried Online Exhibition - Third Place
Still Point Gallery, "The Serious and Playful Side of Light" - Chosen as Artist of Distinction

2010
Baker Arts Center, Liberal, KS - 12th National Juried Art Exhibition
Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursday "Art From the Heart" Exhibition
Rosalind Club of Orlando, "Arts and Antiques"
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA - SOUTHWORKS Juried Art Exhibition
Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA - National Juried Exhibition
Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA - 7th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic, CT - 99th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY - 28th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge, TX - Annual Juried Art Competition, Juror's Award
Louisville Center for the Arts, Louisville, CO - 25th Annual National Fine Art Show
Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD - 19th Annual National Juried Exhibition
American Artists Professional League, New York, NY - 82nd Grand National Exhibition

 

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