Joe Turek

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.

MFA Syracuse University, BFA Clarke University

2018

save face, Solo Show, Clarke University, Dubuque, IA

godforsaken, Cosmopolitan 1153, Syracuse, NY

The Stories We Write are True, The Loft Art Studios and Galleries, San Pedro, CA

Stripes, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

2017

Wax Stories II, Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver, Colorado

Spooky, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse, NY

Trans-degenerate, Milkweed Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY

SER2_BRICK, Biblio Gallery, Bird Library, Syracuse, NY

Props for a Decline, SALT Quarters Gallery, Syracuse, NY

Obscurus, Point of Contact gallery, Syracuse, NY

2016

10 Point Show, 819 Ostrom Ave., Syracuse, NY

Reconstruction, Spark contemporary art space, Syracuse, NY

2015

Deep End, Group Print Exhibition, Apostrophe ‘S, Syracuse, NY

Educators Art Show, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

2013
Regional Juried Exhibition 10, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

Grey Flesh, Solo Show, Nash Gallery, Dubuque, IL

Biennial Quad-State Exhibit, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL

Dubuque Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque, IL

Second Annual Art Educators Appreciation Show, The Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg, IL

2012
Fall Into Art, The Warehouse Art Gallery, 1079 Elm Street, Dubuque, IA

2010
Fall Into Art, Fischer Building, Dubuque, IA

2009
Fall I...