Joe Coleman
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Joe Coleman’s paintings are a feverish cross between Ivan Albright-inspired grotesqueness and R. Crumb-like pop-social critique. Calling himself an ‘apocalyptic visionary painter’, the 52-year-old artist references Spanish-Mexican religious iconography and his intricate and obsessively detailed images often feature well-known criminals and outsiders, whom Coleman seems to consider himself to be.
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Cheska Cruz Tuesday 29 April 2008
First thought: Dante’s inferno. A few seconds of scrutinizing its details made me more convinced of its parallelism to the inferno. The 3-headed Nazi figure at the center screams out to me as the embodiment of cocytus. Tight.
John Daffodils Friday 2 May 2008
These are really fascinating and beautiful. I can’t decide if I’m supposed to be offended or guiltily amused! The combination of politics, crime, religion, the body, and a comic strip aesthetic make it like a farce of things that are otherwise really important. Brilliant!
Nathan Fox Tuesday 22 June 2010
Amazing man & amazing work. If you ever get a chance to hear or see him perform or catch any of his works in person it will be well worth your time and education.
Hats off to Joe and Lostateminor.
The book of Joe and the Rest In Pieces film are a great place to start – http://www.joecoleman.com/ripmain.html