“I’m feral and wonder in the meantime “— Joe Andoe
Tulsa-born painter Joe Andoe is known for his austere depictions of everyday subjects, such as roadsides with cloud-filled skies, horses, dogs, and flowers. For his painting, he uses a reductive technique where he covers an entire canvas with thick black oil paint, then wipes off the paint while still wet to reveal an image beneath, creating an enigmatic and textural minimalism. “Since the late ‘70s I have fancied myself a landscape painter, and a painter of the things that hang around on the landscape” wrote Joe Andoe in his memoir Jubilee City (2008). In his recent work, Andoe underscores the possibilities of imagery by developing a cinematic vision of American mythologies. Often compared to the photographic documentation of teenage life in Tulsa by Larry Clark, Andoe’s universe has emerged as one great depiction of the American spirit and its iconography.
Joe Andoe
Exhibitions
Selected press
- Eleanor Heartney, ‘Joe Andoe : Jubilee City', The Brooklyn Rail, April 2019 — 404.0 kB
- Brandy McDonnell, 'New York City artist Joe Andoe to give a lecture Tuesday at University of Oklahoma', NewsOK, April 10th 2017 — 314.0 kB
- Lorraine Rubio, 'Joe Andoe, The artist inds spectacle in the mundane', Artnet, October 1rst 2014 — 599.4 kB
- Brandy McDonnell, 'Tulsa artist wrote unintentional memoir chance meeting propelled Joe Andoe to unexpected book project','Jubilee City'', NewsOK, September 21st 2007 — 306.5 kB
- Rick Karr, 'Joe Andoe, An Artist's Wild Tales', National Public Radio, September 4th 2007 — 695.0 kB
- Amy Finnerty,'Color Me Bad', The New York Times, August 19th 2007 — 81.1 kB
- Megan Ratner, 'Joe Andoe', Frieze, September 10th 2004 — 66.2 kB
- Michael Wilson, 'Joe Andoe, Fegen Contemporary', Artforum, Reviews september 2004 p.269 — 461.2 kB
- Ken Johnson, 'Art in Review; Joe Andoe', The New York Times, April 23rd 2004 — 88.4 kB
- Rachel Meeks, 'Three Stories by Joe Andoe', Bomb Magazine, July 1st 2003 — 1.2 MB
- Klaus Ottmann,‘Interview with Joe Andoe', Journal of contemporary Art, Winter 1991 — 59.2 kB
- Guy Gilsoul, ‘L’oeuvre de la semaine: Sous le noir’, Focus Vif Magazine, October 2018 — 45.4 kB