Joe Andoe (born December 5, 1955) is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and in museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[2]

Early life and education

Andoe was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[2] He has written extensively about his childhood, youth, and early career in his memoir, Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.), which was published in 2007.[3][4]

Andoe enjoyed drawing as a child, but did not create artwork until attending college. Andoe first realized that painting could be his career when he was enrolled in community college studying agricultural business. He was taking an elective class in art history when he learned about artists such as Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim.[5] He soon changed his major and eventually earned a Master's Degree in Art from the University of Oklahoma in 1981.[6]

Art career

"Untitled (Beehive with Sky)", 1987, oil on linen

Joe Andoe's paintings primarily focus on horses and landscapes. They have been described as "lean" and "roughly poetic" by art writer Deborah Solomon, who wrote in 2019 that Andoe was "an important forerunner of the photo-based realism that has become the default style among younger artists today."[7]

The New York Times described Andoe's Me Copying Cy Twombly copying Picasso as incorporating "deadpan ... conceptual humor", which was displayed in the 2023 "Echo of Picasso" group show honoring the artist's legacy.[8] For his part, Andoe has stated, "Since the late ’70s I have fancied myself a landscape painter, and a painter of the things that hang around on the landscape."[4]

Selected exhibitions and museum collections

Solo exhibitions

  • 2023 Almine Rech Gallery, 'Echo of Picasso,' New York, NY
  • 2023 Almine Rech Gallery, ‘New Paintings,’ Paris, France
  • 2022 Almine Rech Gallery, ‘Chinatown,’ Shanghai, China
  • 2021 Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, ‘The Catskills,’ Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2017 University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. 'Horizon,' Norman, OK

Select public collections

Writing career

Andoe had his first collection of stories published in 2003 by Open City Magazine.[1] That same year he was published in Bomb[14] and Bald Ego. Andoe had earlier authored a comic-book-sized group of stories about his life that he distributed to friends and family. In 2005, Harper Collins asked him to create a longer, narrative version of that work.[5] These became the inspiration for Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.) which was published in 2007.[3][4]

Amy Finnerty from the New York Times reviewed his memoir, writing, "[the subtitle] suggests that Andoe is eager to depict himself as a raw and reckless sort ... he is ardent but infantile, and his delivery is so deadpan that we’re never sure whether he’s self-critical or clueless."[3]

Personal life

Andoe currently lives in New York City. He has two children, a son (Sam) and a daughter (Lilly).[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Harper Collins Publishing. "About The Author". Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Ford Project. "Joe Andoe". Archived from the original on November 24, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Finnerty, Amy (August 19, 2007). "Color Me Bad". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c "'Jubilee City': Vivid landscape of an artist's life". USA Today. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
  5. ^ a b National Public Radio. "Joe Andoe: An Artist's Wild Tales". NPR. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  6. ^ a b Encyclopedia.com. "Andoe, Joe 1955–". Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  7. ^ Solomon, Deborah. "Joe Andoe | Jubilee City". Almine Rech. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  8. ^ Lakin, Max; Gopnik, Blake; Heinrich, Will; D’Souza, Aruna; Vincler, John; Steinhauer, Jillian; Diehl, Travis; Smith, Roberta (December 1, 2023). "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in December". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  9. ^ a b Kinz & Tillou Fine Art. "Joe Andoe". Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  10. ^ "Fisher Landau Center for Art". www.flcart.org. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  11. ^ Leigh, Yawkey (1995). "Woodson Art Museum Catelogue". University of Washing Press. pp. 19–22.
  12. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Joe Andoe". Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  13. ^ Mutual Art. "Joe Andoe". Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  14. ^ "BOMB 84, Summer 2003". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
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