| Artist Profile |
“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.”
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| For close to 40 years Joe 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. |
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| 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. Joe first exhibited his paintings at the 2008 Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival where he received 3 Patron Awards. He won Best of Show at the 2008 Windermere Art Festival and a Merit Award at the 2008 Maitland Rotary Art Festival. He won an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Atlanta Arts League National Juried Exhibition and Third Place in the Infinity Art Gallery Fall Expo 2009 International Juried Show. |
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His work was recently accepted into the International Association of Acrylic Painters 2nd Annual International Online Show. He won an Honorable Mention at the 2009 Winter Park Autumn Art Festival. In 2010 his work will be exhibited at the Baker Arts Center in Liberal Kansas for their 12th National Juried Art Exhibition. His paintings have also been exhibited at The Northlight Gallery, Kennebunkport, Maine.
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