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Username: ljt561
Member Since: March 2011
Member Since: March 2011
Denver, CO United States
Joey Thate was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1983. Joey recently moved and now lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Jumping directly in the art scene with Colorado Creative (2012) making commissioned pieces for the Five Points Area here in Denver. J... more
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| Gender: | Male |
| Artist Statement: | Joey Thate was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1983. Joey recently moved and now lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Jumping directly in the art scene with Colorado Creative (2012) making commissioned pieces for the Five Points Area here in Denver. Joey studied studio painting at Daytona State College. He has been featured to millions of viewers though Fox’s Network Television show Hell’s Kitchen in Seasons 9 and 10. (2011) and other feature films in Los Angeles along with a list of galleries: 2nd Street Gallery, Los Angeles (2011), Neon Venus Gallery, West Hollywood (2011) and KODI , Pasadena (2011). Joey was an credited artist in the Time Union Center 23rd Annual Arts Awards. Featured/Interviewed on the cover of the Florida Times Union on Super Bowl Sunday and highlighted in PBS’s Picture This (2010). Joey founded the former Suite 106 Gallery his working studio and changing exhibit space, collaborating with Downtown Vision INC. and The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. He also is the co-founder of West Eleven in the Brewery Artist Loft in Los Angeles. The beginning process of painting strikes me as magical; much like a birth. Painting fills me with a sense of both accomplishment and integrity, and has proven the most amenable vehicle for translating my inner vision into an outer reality. I don’t set out to produce art about one particular subject or another. Action painting is the core of my work, utilizing the largest scale possible for each project; the expression of a boundless sensory experience, and a flow of working with an unconscious mind. Most of my paintings are rooted and influenced from the depths of the horns in jazz music, largely free jazz, which I find to be very unpretentious and yet very substantial. While I use a variety of materials in each project, my methodology is consistent. The subject matter of each body of work is determined by the materials. The individual pieces are linked by recurring shapes and movements which are universally known. The repetitive nature of my work frees my imagination, provides many opportunities for happy accident, and allows for a graceful finish to the piece. I prefer not to explain a certain piece of work. As an artist, I feel that if you’ve created an image that is how you wanted it to be it delivers the right message, because there isn’t a wrong message. Each person takes something a little different from the same picture, and I’m happy with that. I would rather explain my work with a smile or a tear. |
| Education: | Daytona State College 2006-2007 (Painting and Drawing) |
| Awards & Distinctions: | Time Union Center 23rd Annual Arts Awards , Jacksonville , May 2010 (Credited Artist) |
| Exhibitions: | Work seen on TV: Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” Season 10? Los Angeles Set for the film “Commencement” Los Angeles Selected Exhibitions: Venus Neon Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA December 2011 11.11.11, West Eleven, Los Angeles, CA November 2011 KODI, Pasadena, CA August 2011- November 2011 LIT, Jacksonville, FL May 2010-November 2010 La Strada Italia Gallery, Jacksonville, FL March 2010-October 2010 Butterfield TOO Art Gallery, My Salad Days Survived, November 2009 St. Augustine Art Association Premier Arts Fall Festival, November 2009 Secret Garden Cafe, Jacksonville, Florida 32246, September 2009- March 2010 Avondale Artworks, Jacksonville, September 2009- January 2011 Butterfield TOO, St. Augustine, January 2009-December 2009 St Johns County Public Library, August 2008 The Black Wall Gallery, Nashville, August 2007 Selected Group Exhibition: Annual Fall Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, October 2011 2nd and Gallery, Los Angeles, August 2011- October 2011 City Kidz Center, Jacksonville, September 2010-November 2010 Salon Art Gallery, Jacksonville, June 2010-October 2010 Time Union Center 23rd Annual Arts Awards , Jacksonville , May 2010 “OFF THE GRID” Suite 106 Gallery, Jacksonville, March 2010 Suite 106 Gallery Opening, Jacksonville, January 2010 Haydon Burn Library, Jacksonville , July-December 2009 Florida Pride, St Augustine, November 2008 Energy Lab Gallery, “Summer Fantasy”, August 2008 Energy Lab Gallery, “Layers of Abstraction”, April 2008 Daytona Beach Child Services, November 2007 Energy Lab Gallery, “Celebration of Life”, October 2007 Education: Daytona State College 2006-2007 Publications: Argot and Ochre, November 2011 Urban JAX, May 2011 Downtown Daily Record, June 2010 EU Jacksonville, May 2010 Florida Times Union (cover of life section on Sunday), February 2010 Downtown Daily Record, January 2010 Coffee News, November 2009 St Augustine Record (Compass), April 2008 St Augustine Record (Compass), September 2007 Daytona Beach New Journal, April 2007 TV Appearances: First Coast News Channel 4, January 2010 Born: La Crosse, Wisconsin; April 15th, 1983 |
| Artistic Influences: | Willem de Kooning, Jane Frank, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Antoni Tàpies |
| Artist Tags: | abstract art, action painting, painterly abstraction, abstract expressionism |
