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JOE BIEL Lexicon VIEW WORKS
> The series of monkey paintings partly resulted from an interview with the late writer David Foster Wallace who was questioning the use and effects of emotion and sincerity as strategies in marketing culture. Explaining how the aloof irony generated against this practice is in fact tedious and absurd, the writer went on to voice the view that artists’ mission should lie in revealing the real mechanisms of human nature. Biel responded strongly to these words and began to give the monkeys inhabiting a drawing he was working on their individuality rather than having them belonging to a group. |
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Joe Biel
lives and works in Los Angeles; he received an MFA in Painting from
the University of Michigan in 1990. His work has been exhibited in galleries
nationally and internationally at LA Louver Gallery, Roberts and Tilton
Gallery, Acuna-Hansen Gallery and Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, Goff
+ Rosenthal Gallery in New York, Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, and
Galerie Kuckei/Kuckei in Berlin. He has been included in group exhibitions
at the Otis College of Art and Design and the Torrance Museum of Art
in Los Angeles, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Laguna Art
Museum in Laguna, CA; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield,
CT and Diverseworks in Houston, TX. He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner
Foundation award in 2003 and in 2008. |
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