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Joe McFadden's Artist Statement and Biography...“After graduating
from college with a degree in painting, and after the obligatory pilgrimage to
It has always been my opinion that painting is first and foremost a unique form of communication. A painting can make a statement that a poem or piece of music cannot. Most of the information we absorb, conscious or subconscious, is visual, and as we go about our lives, we constantly make connections between disparate images. Usually these connections are subliminal, but we still assign meaning to them and I believe they play a profound role in who we are. Even though I was not painting, I continued to study art history and whenever possible, to visit museums. While in I started painting faces, making them up, twisting them, distorting them, looking for a dialog between the painting and me. I added references to things from my life that I find important: history, literature, mythology, anything that occurs to me while the piece is in progress. In many of the pieces, humor plays a role, breaking the unspoken rule about combining humor with fine art. Humor is an important part of my life, so it is in the paintings. The collar and thin necks are trademarks of the saints; they offer an effective barrier between mind and heart, an essential element in the human condition. The Saints are quixotic, grounded in history but very contemporary, serious yet whimsical. The fundamental idea is that of the shared universal experience; the more connection I have to a painting, the more honest it is, and the more of a connection the viewer will have.”
Corporate Collections •
• The Florida Bar Association,
• The Governor’s Club,
• Keep
• First South Bank,
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• Gray Harris Robinson, PA,
Private Collections • Ron
and Cheryl Howard,
• Karen Baltier,
• Dan
Beal,
• Dr.
Tony Moser,
• Tim
Bowers,
• Steve
Buck,
• Chase Buritt,
• Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Eisenger,
• Jeff
Johnson,
• Daniel Balys,
• Tobin
and Denise Beck,
• Julian Heise-Benson,
• Ann Bowman, Colorado Springs, CO • Barry
Burkholder,
• Lee
and Cliff Hinkle,
• Bruce
and Joann Evans,
• Anna
Huang,
• Kaylin Koch, Canyon City, CO •
• J.B. Basani, Phoenix, CO • Joey
Best,
• Helen Blythe, Paso Robles, CA • Sharon
and Ken Bryant,
• Mary
Burns,
• Sabrina DiMichele,
• Dan
and Debbie Hilton,
• Kathy
Jameson,
• Michele
Kong,
• Sam
and Shiela Lewis,
• Bruno Lupien, Apex, NC • Mike
O’Neal,
• Neil Weinrib,
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Recent
Exhibitions Solo and Group • Proctor Fine Art,
• Kathryn Dixon Fine Art,
• Studio E Gallery,
• Proctor Fine Art,
• Lemoyne Art Foundation,
• Kathryn Dixon Fine Art,
• Proctor Fine Art,
• Gallery 707,
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• Proctor Fine Art,
• The Blue Spiral 1,
• The Signature Gallery,
• Proctor Fine Art,
• The Nice Picture Company, Cashiers, NC • The
• The Blue Spiral 1,
• The
• The
• Museum of Arts and Science,
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