Joe Coleman is on the list of my preferred visionary artists, altough in the 'subgroup' of the dark ones. His style, which in some way remembers the great Robert Crumb, is astounding and seeing one of his paintings in details is a mind-moving experience indeed.
Simultaneously a miniaturist and a maximalist, Mr. Coleman wears jeweler’s magnifying lenses and uses single-hair brushes to cover every micron of his surfaces, including the frames, with minute pictorial detail and tiny text. He paints “one square inch at a time,” he said, never sketching or plotting out the completed work in advance.
“The composition reveals itself to me,” he explained in an interview.
Simultaneously a miniaturist and a maximalist, Mr. Coleman wears jeweler’s magnifying lenses and uses single-hair brushes to cover every micron of his surfaces, including the frames, with minute pictorial detail and tiny text. He paints “one square inch at a time,” he said, never sketching or plotting out the completed work in advance.
“The composition reveals itself to me,” he explained in an interview.
In 2007 Joe was one of the protagonists of the Mind States conference in Costa Rica, together with Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Jonathan Ott, Erik Davis and other well known members of the entheogen network.
The Dickinson Gallery in New York will host a Coleman's exhibition opening next week, May 2, which features also works by the 15th century Northern Primitives, artists whose work directly inspires Coleman.
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