Joseph Barbaccia

Born:1952Philadelphia, PA, USA have created art objects since childhood. During that time there have been many reasons why I created. At one time or another I created for attention or for money. Or to express emotions or transmit ideas. I've created just to play with the medium or just to pass the time. I've created as an excuse to be alone and search my soul. I've created to impress and I've created to make a living.Art is Idea. Ideas can be transmitted through many different forms and mediums. The medium, or art object, is a conduit and container, potentially/constantly transmitting the Idea. It's a renewable energy source, a beacon radiating the Ideas and energies placed into it by the artist. The artist is a creator. The art object a carrier or transmitter. The viewer a receiver. Each viewer has his or her own filter. So the success of transmission is not solely dependent on the artist. The viewer needs to participate (tune in) and the environment has to be right.My art springs from ideas, usually hastily sketched or written down and stored away, to be realized at a later date. I think of this as an aging process. Green ideas do not always deserve to be made into art objects. Sometimes when I return and review an idea I find it...

Tyler School of Fine Art (Temple University), Philadelphia, PA

2023
Group – Members’ Fine Craft Exhibition, The Rehoboth Art
League, Rehoboth Beach, DE (Honorable Mention),
Juror: Richard Holt, Ceramics Chair, Towson University
Group – ABSTRACTION, Milton Art Guild, Milton DE
(Honorable Mention), Juror: Kurt Plinke
Solo – “Delaware Days”, The Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth
Beach, DE

2022
Solo – Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Group – As Seen Through New Eyes, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, Jurors: Yulia
Hanansen and Eriq Hochuli
Group – Multifarious, The d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA, Jurors: Co-curated by gallery
manager Amanda Bradley, and exhibition juror, Rick Nickel
Solo – The Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Group – Award Winners XXII, CAMP, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Group – The Rehoboth Art League, “Members Fine Craft Exhibition” Rehoboth Beach, DE
Group – Award Winners XXII, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
Group – POP: Perspectives on Polymer, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Group – Handcrafted: Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC, Juror: Anne Havel