Sears-Peyton Gallery will be participating in the PULSE NY art fair

March 3-6, 2011

Please visit us at Booth I-2

New fair location:
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011

Sears-Peyton Gallery is proud to exhibit recent work by Bo Joseph in a solo booth at the Pulse NY art fair at the Metropolitan Pavilion, March 3-6, 2011. Included in the installation will be paintings and large scale drawings. From myriad printed sources Bo Joseph scavenges imagery of objects that transcend cultural boundaries and superimposes them in dense webs of line or as negative shapes over gestural fields of color. Objects appear as voids; spaces appear as form. Through chancy techniques, Joseph develops complex referential hybrids that invoke the anomalous and transient nature of material meaning and instigate new roles for his archetypal sources. Whether working on a fragmentary used drop cloth or on joined sheets of paper, he exploits the painting support like yet another intrinsically charged found object. The resulting abstractions examine how beliefs and perception affect the experience of "reality" and the compiling of collective knowledge; and despite their wide-ranging and often disparate sources, these works assert signs of ideological syncretism and contemporary interdependence. Bo Joseph (b.1969), a native of California, has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions with galleries and institutions across the U.S. Joseph has received awards and honors such as the Basil H. Alkazzi Award, fellowships in painting from Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and his 2010 exhibition was reviewed in Art in America magazine. He has been a visiting artist/lecturer at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth and the Rhode Island School of Design where he has also taught drawing. His work is held in international public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH; and the Guilin Art Museum, Guilin, China. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Joseph lives and works in New York City.

Bo Joseph Shrines to the Myth of Self, 2010 oil pastel, acrylic, and tempera on joined paper 79 5/8 x 55 3/4 inches Bo Joseph A Lexicon of Persistent Absence: Losing Faith, 2010 acrylic and transfer on paper 16 x 12 inches