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I was born in a small town in Oklahoma. I began painting in oils around the age of twelve and produced a considerable body of work before graduating from high school in 1968. Although I attended O.S.U. as an art major for several years, I never enrolled in painting classes so I don't consider myself to be formally trained as a painter. I have continued to paint throughout my life and have had work in juried shows in various cities over the years including Los Angeles, New York and a museum show in Brooklyn.
I am currently in the process of making my paintings available as Giclee prints on paper and on canvas, mounted on a wooden stretcher. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions about my work or about availability of paintings and prints.

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Blue Ribbon 450 x 768 pixels (101 KB) 0 Comments 24" x 42" oil/canvas	Star 1024 x 1014 pixels (297 KB) 0 Comments 24" x 24" oil/canvas	Legacy of Tradition 546 x 768 pixels (104 KB) 0 Comments 18" x 24" oil/canvas
Kingdom 1024 x 942 pixels (303 KB) 0 Comments 32" x 32" oil/canvas	Forbidden Jungle 1024 x 392 pixels (161 KB) 0 Comments 13" x 32" oil /canvas	Jukebox Sarcophagus 675 x 768 pixels (169 KB) 0 Comments 32" x 34" oil/canvas
Temple of Conventional Wisdom 1024 x 1001 pixels (313 KB) 0 Comments 24" x 24" oil/canvas	Window 1024 x 849 pixels (263 KB) 0 Comments 28" x 32" oil/canvas	Bedtime Story 518 x 768 pixels (88 KB) 0 Comments 24" x 36" oil/canvas
Heart 579 x 768 pixels (118 KB) 0 Comments 18" x 24" oil/canvas	Spirit of Eros 576 x 768 pixels (94 KB) 0 Comments 20" x 24" oil/canvas	Ritual 576 x 768 pixels (136 KB) 0 Comments 30" x 44" oil/canvas
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Artist: Joel ( )

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I am a self-taught, visionary surrealist painter (for lack of a better definition). I believe that reality is a cultural consensus, that people perceive the world through the "filter" of their society. This conditioned perception of reality along with the tendency to grow less observant of the world around us as we become adults, dulls our awareness. Our concept of an object profoundly affects the way we see it. Often, we are seeing our concept of the object more than we are actually looking at the object itself. When someone is unfamiliar wih something, they examine it more carefully than they do when they have a preconceived notion of what it is. I like to take images that seem familiar and render them unfamiliar, allowing the viewer to see them as if for the first time. I agree with Magritte that an artist's work should "evoke a sense of mystery" and feel that the best advice ever given to an artist was director Sergei Diaghilev's command to Jean Cocteau "Astonish Me"

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