Newzones Welcomes Joseph Adolphe!
Newzones is please to announce we are now representing Joseph Adolphe!
Born in Calgary, Joseph Adolphe moved to New York City in 1992 to attend the School of Visual Arts where he received his MFA in 1994. His paintings have been featured in over forty exhibitions since 1998, throughout the USA and abroad. He is a professor of Fine Arts at St. John’s University in New York.
Of his work, Adolphe states:
"Over the past 3 years or so I’ve been trying to paint not just the
created thing, but the forces that shaped the created thing."
Joseph Adolphe’s oil paintings echo anxiety and vulnerability in the modern day. Whether they are beaten down fighters, agile beasts or innocent children, his subjects appear burdened by conflict and the weight of the world. Nonetheless, they are strong, resilient characters, as their confidence and bravery give the paintings an undeniable optimism even when the subject is dark. Strength and individuality are measured by their ability to endure the hardships of their personal confrontations with the world. While the trajectory of Adolphe’s paintings follows this same course there is nevertheless an illogical optimism reflected in the confident and powerful force of his marks and colors, as if to say that, ‘in spite of the downfall of the proud, we still stand, bloody and marked, broken, but beautiful’.
Joseph Adolphe’s paintings are held in many private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Check out more of Adolphe's beautiful paintings on his artist page here on the Newzones website.
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| Joseph Adolphe, Toro Sagrado 3, 2013, Oil and Gold Enamel on Canvas 54" x 48" |
Born in Calgary, Joseph Adolphe moved to New York City in 1992 to attend the School of Visual Arts where he received his MFA in 1994. His paintings have been featured in over forty exhibitions since 1998, throughout the USA and abroad. He is a professor of Fine Arts at St. John’s University in New York.
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| Joseph Adolphe, Ravenna Relaxed 2, 2012, Oil on Canvas, 66" x 54" |
Joseph Adolphe’s oil paintings echo anxiety and vulnerability in the modern day. Whether they are beaten down fighters, agile beasts or innocent children, his subjects appear burdened by conflict and the weight of the world. Nonetheless, they are strong, resilient characters, as their confidence and bravery give the paintings an undeniable optimism even when the subject is dark. Strength and individuality are measured by their ability to endure the hardships of their personal confrontations with the world. While the trajectory of Adolphe’s paintings follows this same course there is nevertheless an illogical optimism reflected in the confident and powerful force of his marks and colors, as if to say that, ‘in spite of the downfall of the proud, we still stand, bloody and marked, broken, but beautiful’.
Joseph Adolphe’s paintings are held in many private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Check out more of Adolphe's beautiful paintings on his artist page here on the Newzones website.
