Joseph C Blanchette

Primarily self-taught my influences range from Georgia O'Keefe, Casper David Frederick, Edward Hopper, Gerhard Richter, and Monet. Studied as a non-degree student at the San Francisco Art Institute ( SFAI ) under Professors Jeremy Morgan, Dave Tangney and Carlos Via from 1994 through 2000.

"I wish to reaffirm the meaning of beauty, which has become maligned or obscured. My work is a minimalist representation, communicating the relationship between the transcendental and the ordinary not available in the various dogmas of abstraction or conventional realist styles. I intend to the Transcendentalist view that any scene is a profound mystery existing as the mundane. Using formalism, and an intuitive chromatic scale, the visually ephemeral and inconsequential is revealed as a moment of experiential wonderment. Beauty, by Art or by Nature, has the capacity to awaken the feeling of awe, and awe is the emotional and bodily perception of the underlying Mystery of this ordinary experience.

Joseph C Blanchette

SOLO or DUO SHOWS:
1991 Hood River Vineyards Gallery, Hood River OR
2004 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2005 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2006 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2007 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2008 Aunka Gallery, Portland OR
2009 Virtuoso Gallery, Portland OR
2010 Aunka Gallery, Portland OR
2011 Aunka Gallery, Portland OR

GROUP SHOWS:
1996 San Francisco Art Institute Atrium Gallery San Francisco CA
1997 Jernigan / Wicker Fine Art Galleries, San Francisco CA
1999 GS2 Galleries, Oakland CA
2000 Jernigan / Wicker Fine Art Galleries, San Francisco CA
2004 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2004 Jernigan / Wicker Fine Art Galleries, San Francisco CA
2005 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2006 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2007 Talisman Gallery, Portland OR
2012 Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland OR

GALLERIES
Currently San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA
Jernigan / Wicker Fine Art Galleries, San Francisco CA
Talisman Gallery, Portland OR

MEDIA
Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring 2000 Cover Issue

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Hood River Vineyards, Hood River, OR
The Bisson Collection, San Francisco, CA
The Jack and Judy Raitan Private Collection, San Franc...