Joe Hardesty - Visual Artist
California Peppercorn California Peppercorn: Detail Windowless Bathroom Windowless Bathroom: Detail Shot Redwood Lotus Redwood Lotus: Detail Three Smokers Three Smokers: Detail Sunny California Sunny California: 2 details Help Me Find Sweetie Laurel Canyon Installation Shot Installation Shot Finest Looking Small Meandering River Pink Monkeys From the Desk of Joseph Hardesty Two Boys (watercolor version) Steep Green Hillside Sunburned Pool Pink Teats Belgian Countryside Checkered Headdress Vikings Angry Crowd Cystic Fibrosis Pink Teats II (small messy version) Two Boys Vikings! II (red version) Belgian Countryside II (fuchsia version) Chicken Coop Tumbleweeds Steep Green Hillside (Messy Version) Swollen Teats Dutch Countryside Clergy Drawing Landscape Drawing Landscape (Detail) Three Boys Three Boys (detail) Lions Filthy Dogs Twins Twins (detail) Ski Jump Ski Jump (detail) Twins (study drawing) Reclining woman Landscape #2 (less pessimistic) White Wolves White Wolves Portrait Rainbow Dogs Explosive Device Explosive Device (detail) Samurai Wolves (study drawing) Former President Feathery Plume
Text Drawings
I make seemingly simple drawings on paper that address ambiguous and contradictory aspects of our cultural landscape. By focusing viewers’ attention primarily through the use of text, my drawings work both as a concrete reality created on the page and as a changing series of interpretations as each viewer “reads” the text differently. I want the process of making art – the act of imagination – to be both visible and entertaining. Using only language to describe what the viewer is experiencing, the drawings inhabit a space somewhere between text, image and the mind’s eye.

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