Catskills Series #8

Joe Andoe

Catskills Series #8, 200723 x 30.5cmSign in to view price
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The artwork depicts a serene landscape with rolling hills and a hazy blue sky. The composition features a muted color palette, primarily composed of earthy tones of brown and green, creating a sense of depth and atmosphere. The brushstrokes are loose and expressive, conveying a sense of motion and fluidity. The subject matter appears to be a pastoral scene, with the hills and distant mountains suggesting a rural or mountainous setting. The overall artistic style and technique suggest an impressionistic or post-impressionistic approach, capturing the essence of the landscape rather than a literal representation. The context of this piece may reflect the artist's desire to evoke a contemplative and meditative experience for the viewer. ...

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Joe Andoe
Artist
Joe Andoe
B.1955, American

Joe Andoe’s body of work includes paintings, drawings, videos, and writings. His figurative painting is almost exclusively monochrome. He uses a reductive technique where he covers the entire canvas with thick black oil paint and then wipes it off with his hands or a paper towel, bringing images out of the darkness. The result is a slightly evanescent effect, an enigmatic and texturally minimalistic painting. His subjects – flowers, landscapes, roadsides, cows and calves, and totemic animals such as horses, wolves and bears – are symbols of a powerful, idealized and obsolete America. Although those subjects are unmistakably drawn from the American vernacular, it is evident that beyond the banal and the everyday, Andoe is also engaged in depicting the sublime and the spiritual. He has the ability to detect the idiosyncratic appeal of the most mundane and simple sources and to employ them in the reflection on art. Andoe has fused post-modern figurative painting with views rooted in the Old West. His works evoke the days when cowboys and their loyal horses flashed across the big screen at the drive-in, and the world was still black and white. His universe has emerged as one great depiction of the American spirit and its iconography. He is not an ironic artist, and he is not satirizing the old days – on the contrary, he keeps thinking about them. The strong faces of wolves and horses that gaze directly at him as he coaxes them to life are both here and not here. That is where the poignancy resides in his work, in his pursuit of an absence. ...

Joe Andoe: Artworks
Catskills Series #9
Joe Andoe
Catskills Series #9, 2007
28.2 x 36cm
Double Horse
Joe Andoe
Double Horse, 2006
101.5 x 76.5cm
Untitled
Joe Andoe
Untitled, 2004
68.5 x 104cm
Beast Mode #1
Joe Andoe
Beast Mode #1, 2018
86.5 x 56cm
Untitled
Joe Andoe
Untitled, 2019
86.5 x 61cm
Man O War 6/16/19
Joe Andoe
Man O War 6/16/19, 2019
170 x 152.5cm
Only a Jackass Signs Twice 3/20/21
Joe Andoe
Only a Jackass Signs Twice 3/20/21, 2021
101.6 x 76.2cm
Catskills Series #4
Joe Andoe
Catskills Series #4, 2005
28 x 35.5cm
Catskills Series #8
Joe Andoe
Catskills Series #8, 2007
23 x 30.5cm
Catskills Series #7
Joe Andoe
Catskills Series #7, 2006
28 x 35.5cm
Leslie Lee 2/13/18
Joe Andoe
Leslie Lee 2/13/18, 2018
266 x 165cm
Sunflowers
Joe Andoe
Sunflowers, 2010
182 x 172cm
Cadillac 6/11/19
Joe Andoe
Cadillac 6/11/19, 2019
86.5 x 226cm
Monte Carlo 4/15/19
Joe Andoe
Monte Carlo 4/15/19, 2019
61 x 86.5cm
Lake View 9/20/21
Joe Andoe
Lake View 9/20/21, 2021
88.9 x 101.6cm
Horse 9/22/22 #2
Joe Andoe
Horse 9/22/22 #2, 2022
116.8 x 91.4cm
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