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JOE ANDOE
Rainbow Road part 2
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
Joe Andoe, Rainbow road part 2 5/25/18 (for Jp), 2018 - Oil on linen - 160 x 304,8 cm, 63 x 120 inches / © Joe Andoe - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

Joe Andoe, Rainbow road part 2 5/25/18 (for Jp), 2018 – Oil on linen – 160 x 304,8 cm, 63 x 120 inches / © Joe Andoe – Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition by Joe Andoe with the gallery.

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 ofteenage life in Tulsa by Larry Clark, Andoe’s universe has emerged as one great depiction of the American spirit and its iconography.

Born in 1955 (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Joe Andoe received his MFA from University of Oklahoma in 1981. He currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt ; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview ; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach ; the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo ; and the Denver Art Museum, Denver, among others. His work is in public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Museum of Modern Art, New York ; Museum of Fine Arts ; Boston ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego ; The Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit ; and The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC ; the Hall Art Foundation; and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami.

  • Joe Andoe, Rainbow road part 2 5/25/18 (for Jp), 2018 - Oil on linen - 160 x 304,8 cm, 63 x 120 inches / © Joe Andoe - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

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