Joe Andoe

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Joe Andoe (born 1955 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American artist.

life and work

Andoe spent a wild youth, according to his own admission, with "... drugs, girls, alcohol and frenzies in disabled cars through the streets of Tulsa". He was sentenced to prison several times for this in the early 1970s. After this wild period he studied at the University of Oklahoma at Norman ; there he obtained the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 1981. In his beginning artistic development, Andoe processed the impressions from his youth in his own way. His strangely cool, monochrome and often serial pictures of young girls or American types of cars from the sixties come from this time. A later creative period allowed him to take up motifs from rural life in Oklahoma. The flat landscape of a farm in this area, which he knew from his childhood, offers Andoe motifs for his work: woven wreaths, candlelights, flowers, ears of grain, trees, cattle, buffalos, sheep and lambs and, above all, horses that belong to his later trademarks were.

Andoe approached his artistic work economically. "I tend to economize, I want to restrict my pictures to blueprints," said the artist, characterizing his way of working. He tried to let the chosen motifs of his pictures merge completely with the painting background and the colors.

Joe Andoe was one of the numerous artists who belonged to the circle of the art collector and patron Theodor Ahrenberg .

The artist's work can be found in renowned international museums, including a. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York) or in the Phillip Morris Collection. He had numerous solo and collective exhibitions at international galleries and art houses, most recently a. a. as part of the exhibition "Today's Youth" in the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, 2006). Andoe lives and works in New York.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1986 White Columns White Room (New York, NY)
  • 1988 Tom Cugliani Gallery (NY), Dart Gallery (Chicago), Maloney Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.)
  • 1989 BlumHelman Gallery (NY), Michael Kohn Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • 1990 University of Oklahoma Museum of Art (Norman, Okl.): "Joe Andoe - New Work", Galérie Daniel Templon (Paris)
  • 1991 Heffel Gallery (Vancouver, Can.), Galerie Kaj Forsblom (Helsinki), Yodo Gallery (Osaka, Jap.), Galerie Busche (Cologne)
  • 1992 Jason Rubell Gallery (Palm Beach, Flor.)
  • 1995 Milliventi Sperone (Turin, Ital.)
  • 1996 Winston Wachter Fine Art (NY)
  • 1998 Jon Oulman Gallery (Minneapolis), Meredith Long & Co. (Houston, Tex.)
  • 1999 KOPAC (Seoul, Korea), David Floria Gallery (Aspen, Colorado)
  • 2000 Gallery Simonne Stern (New Orleans, La.), University of Buffalo Art Gallery Research Center in Art & Culture (Buffalo, NY)
  • 2001 Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Miss.)
  • 2002 Gallery Samtuh (Chongdam-dong Kangnam, Korea)
  • 2003 Earl MacGrath Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • 2004 Feigen Contemporary (NY)
  • 2005 Longview Museum of Fine Arts (Longview, Tex.)

literature

  • Ratner, Megan: Joe Andoe. New York: Feigen Contemporary, 2004. in: “Frieze”; issue 85 (Sept. 2004), p. 129 ff.
  • Emenhiser, Karen: Highway Minimalism. [From the exhibition catalog "Joe Andoe - What you see" <Nov. 10 - Dec. 15, 2000>]. Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Andoe, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma