An interdisciplinary visual artist, Joseph’s mediums include oil, encaustic wax, epoxy resin, and film. His art is currently represented by multiple galleries and exhibitions along the east coast, his films have won awards on the indie circuit, procured distribution, and have screened at many film festivals. He is also a published writer and an optioned screenwriter.
After earning his BFA in Visual Art and Design from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, he began his career as an architectural designer and 3D illustrator. He currently serves as Creative Director for a New York-based architectural design firm, where his projects have earned myriad accolades.
He currently lives just outside of Hamilton, NY with his wife and is in the process of converting a historic barn into an art studio, soon to open its doors as Barnstorm Studios.
Selected Exhibitions, Galleries & Collectives
2025 | Arts at the Palace Annual Winter At The Palace Gala & Fundraiser
2025 | 25 Main Collective Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY
“Elemental” group exhibition
2025 | 25 Main Collective Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY
“Inspired by a Book” group exhibition
2025 | Arts at the Palace, Lower Lake, Hamilton, NY
Summer Village Art Walk solo exhibition, Lower Lake
2025 | Syracuse Arts Festival, Syracuse, NY
2025 | Makes Alley Art Collective, Lambertville NJ
Juried Group Exhibition
2025 | Makes Alley Art Collective, Lambertville NJ
Group Spring Exhibition, People’s Choice Award Winner
2024 | Makes Alley Art Collective, Lambertville NJ
Group Fall Exhibition, People’s Choice Award Winner
2024 | Skylands Museum of Art, Lafayette, NJ
2024 | Casa Bizarro, Frenchtown, NJ
2022-2025 | Red Queen Gallery, Onancock, VA
2023-Present White Space Event Gallery | Hackettstown, NJ
2022 Bishop Stock Art Gallery, Snow Hill, MD
‘Incidents and Digressions’ Solo Exhibition.
2022 George Segale Studios, Sparta, NJ
‘All in the Family’ Two Artist Exhibition
2020 George Segale Studios, Sparta, NJ
Two Artist Exhibition
* Film and writing CV available upon request
Artist Statements
“Each of these works is a taut negotiation. I set out with an exact vision of what I want to happen on the surface, with a medium that I’ve chosen expressly for its unpredictability. As I work through the piece, I must come to terms with how the moment, the medium, and the process alter my vision. It’s humbling. I make concessions. I guide the work to what it tells me it wants to be, using a blow torch, a palette knife, gravity, compressed air, gravity and so on to coax it, sometimes to trick it.
I find making these works, then, an analog for the act of living itself- expectation vs reality, coming to terms with the limits of your control over circumstance. Or akin to what I imagine performing improvisational music is like- a subservience to the moment.
When all is right, we (the painting and I) find peace with one another, even as the end result often evinces tumult. I find the aftermath of the conflict beautiful, almost always.”
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“I’ve begun to wonder what it will mean when we shed our bodies altogether. What do we embody then? A manifestation of expression, an extension of the forgotten face, the still hoped for (existence of the) heart.
I am currently interested in seeing that yet unseen fate of the bodyburden re-purposed, the possibility of the human form yet to come, sex-driven sexless, when we might invent our self-image unhindered by vanity, to become an amorphous expression informed mainly by emotion, which is, I believe, the entanglement and conflict of (at least) two impulses, sometimes opposing, sometimes rhyming aslant: love and fear; hate and triumph; desire and inhibition; and so on.
The resulting form, at least as it looks to me from my view in the corner of my home where I sling my paint and wax in the darkest hours, is not unlike the dreamvision creatures of ancients, the ghosts or our personal mythologies who wear their ghosthood only to obfuscate their true identity as pure reflection.
Ultimately, that’s what this is, an attempt at recording that reflection.”