Watching the Detective - Nathan Slate Joseph paints like a sculptor and makes sculptures like a painter. In this sense, his coterie could include Alberto Giacometti and John Chamberlain. Joseph's paintings occupy more space than a conventional work with heavily pigmented surfaces on galvanized steel that have a gritty and fleshy earnestness. The sculptures read like facades and require the labor-intensive patience of a bricklayer. Joseph often delineates each smaller rectangle with seams or stitching underscoring a larger grid/pattern that create a flickering light challenging the mathematical certainty of some of his Minimalist predecessors. The energy builds on the surface, weaving imperfectly across each work.
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~George Negroponte March, 2023