My artwork evokes a variety of feeling and motions depending on my mood. As I am working on an art piece, my mind tends to wander and get caught up in the moment of anxiousness leading me to procrastinate and leaving the painting unfinished. Though this is good for me, because it may take a few days or weeks to lead me to return and add more creative processes. With wild brush strokes and continuous design elements the art work began to stand on its’ own and becomes less contentious. My mind is forever moving whether it is moving with new ideas or a personal moment in my day-by-day life, my paintings are always growing with ambition.
While being influenced by fashion designers, in my early years, I developed sewing skills and construction design through hard work, especially after getting the opportunity to partake in local community fashion shows. As that short-lived talent grew, my accomplishment level transformed into painting on canvas using different mediums. It essentially started off with abstract than figurative but remains abstract. Many accolades proceeded with art gallery representation ads in Art Forum, Gallery& Studio, and Art In America to name a few. However, I needed academic work from Bloomfield College for Technology (certification Computer Graphics) and Kean University (BFA). While many past time artist didn’t have formal art training, I felt, as an artist I needed to have a worldly view on art and its’ expressions of genre.
As some artists’ see things from a worldwide standpoint and relate them with events, I am impressed by writers with great storyline through film. With painting abstract comes a price tag with imagination between the artists’ and viewers. That is, my paintings tell a story inadvertently through color and brush stroke. While others tell a story using geometric shapes, textile, texture, mixed media and pictorial collage. The television show “The Twilight Zone” keeps a viewer in suspense. One favorite line from the episode “The Howling Man” is when a sick man (Mr. Ellington) talks with a hermitage man. Mr. Ellington: I didn’t believe you. I saw him and didn’t recognize him. Hermitage man: That is man’s weakness and Satans’ strength. This is how I relate my paintings with the subject matter and beauty.
Statement
The Study
Brouhaha Gallery, China 2022
Livingston Arts Council 2022
Studio Montclair 2023
Brouhaha Gallery, China 2022
Art In The Atrium, 2023
More To Come
Before attending college and attaining a BFA degree, Joseph Boss (b. 1965 Newark) is a self- taught and motivated artist for as long as he can remember.