"a white male 2" Painting
Painting, Encaustic on Paper
18 W x 24 H in
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In life, people try to control things and they just fall apart, so these are portraits of people for whom everything has fallen apart. I see it as a portrait of hubris where the gradual accumulation of failures can’t stand up to the stress. I want to create this picture of this mess because we often...
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2017
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Painting, Encaustic on Paper
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18 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in
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Not Framed
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Joe Turek received a BFA from Clarke University and a master's from Syracuse University. In addition to his creative output as an artist he was the assistant director of Talent Agency Teen Portfolio Development Inc. and a public school art teacher as well for over eight years. His current body of work is a process of undoing a portrait. A full lifelike or abstract portrait of a powerful person is painted using acrylic on encaustic wax. The wax is melted away to reveal the final portrait.
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