Joel Carreiro
Professor, Head of Painting and Drawing
Joel Carreiro is an artist, writer and curator whose practice exists entirely within the realm of available art imagery.
In Alexandrian Greece, a cento was a poem made up entirely of lines quoted from other poets.
Cultural heritage is a rich resource to be mined. The most interesting images to alter are those with the most highly defined identities, providing the most resistance.
“Quotational painting is addressed as much to the mind as to the eye. All modes of expression are based on quoting—it's what makes communication possible”. (Thomas McEvilley)
Recent solo shows include “A Tour of Possible Worlds” at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, with a review in the New Art Examiner, “Picassoid”, at the Center for the Arts Gallery, Westchester C.C. with catalog, and “Pictorial Philosophy” at Murray State University, KY
Recent group exhibitions: “Parallels and Rupture”, Albright College, Reading, with catalog, “Altered Logistics: Contemporary Collage and Appropriation”, SUNY Cortland, and “So Happy Together”, Studio Artego, Queens, NY
Most recent curatorial project: “Object Fluency”: Ronald Gonzalez and Kathleen Granados”, Cluster Gallery, Playground Brooklyn
Residencies: Art Park, Yaddo, Haystack, Anderson Ranch, Latvian Art Academy, Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland
Recent reviews: D. Dominick Lombardi, “Joel Carreiro: A Tour of Possible Worlds”, New Art Examiner, Sarah Mills, “Picassoids; The Science Fiction of Art History, Picassoid catalog, Paul Bochner, “Carreiro’s Picassos”, Picassoid catalog
