Highlandtown Gallery
Celebrating the Art & Artists of Maryland
248 S. Conkling Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Featured Artist: Joe Dennison
"The JOE Show"
Joe is a local playwright and commercial painter. He's a self-taught artist and can trace his earliest influences back to his artist parents in the 60s and a theater set design course at the University of Maryland in 1980.
His other influences are Baltimorean Glenn Walker (Who went to MICA with Joe's father) Vincent Van Gogh (who didn’t) Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Jackson Pollock, Matisse, Peter Max, and Salvador Dali. He's also inspired by the line drawings of John Lennon, James Thurber, and the cartoons of Gary Larson. He typically works with industrial acrylics “absconded” from his “other” job in commercial painting.
These are Joe's most recent pieces. He explains” I’ve decided to call my new paintings JOES instead of giving them separate titles which sometimes can influence the viewer’s take on a piece. And because I’m lazy. As Henry Miller said: 'Paint what you like and die happy.' I guess that’s all I’m trying to do here. (Paint…..not die.) "
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