I believe that glazed ceramic pieces can become art, and functional forms can also serve as art in terms of contemporary modernity. Even though contemporary art is marking as its salient features, I believe that form and content within ceramic art already possess the contemporary values by the dichotomy between tradition and modernity, not by antagonism against tradition.
A fragile ceramic piece reveals its temporality of time and place, and symbolizes an ephemeral and vulnerable emotions and feelings. The flexibility and adjustability of my forms are relating with the openness. Those are still in-process that can be expended and reduced along with the context that the form sits.
I am fond of juxtaposing different components and styles. The juxtaposition conveys the duality of aesthetics and values. As such, the totalization within an installed form illustrates a visible consonance beyond time and space.

i'm a self taught painter working with oil and acrylic based textures. my work expresses emotions, passion, and the flow of energy using figures and organic images. they're intended to be sat with and experienced by the viewer, almost as an active participant.

My medium is acrylic & mixed media on canvas

I believe that our world is full of beauty and that there are countless individuals committing random acts of kindness every day. My goal as an artist is to record that beauty as I see it and in the process, I hope that it will bring some joy into the viewer's life. We are bombarded daily with reports of unspeakable horrors--caused by either forces of nature or by human frailties. Yet even in the midst of chaos and violence, one can find beauty, peace, and those who choose to provide comfort. May the vibrant colors of my work inspire you to create your own beauty!

Sometimes you have to loose focus to gain perspective.

Strangers. Gazing at strangers was never allowed. In my quest to know more about myself and my species, I follow my gaze where it takes me. For most of my artistic life, my gaze seemed to find itself lighting on shapes and colors and nameless interludes where the two came together and affected my psyche and my heart. Lately, the last couple years, I have found my love for humanity and my gaze meeting out in the world of strangers. "Grand Central Station" is a suite of paintings meant to open the conversation between strangers found coming and going one winter's evening in this famed train station.

Allan visits the Philadelphia Asylum to meet its famed director, Dr. Gross, and to discuss Gross’ controversial treatment, the “Soothing System.” Allan is shocked when Dr. Gross states that the Soothing System is no longer in use.
As the two men walk Dr. Gross explains his theories of treating the mad mind, disciplining the body, and harnessing the dangerous “irresistible compulsion” that fosters madness. Gross invites Allan to dinner to meet his staff and to introduce Allan to the latest treatment known as the “System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.”
Loosely based on a Poe tale, filmed in daylight, and edited for a new cinematic generation, this film exposes and overexposes Edgar Allan Poe, Philadelphia, and the strange characters that inhabit this mad world.

Please enjoy, this work was inspired by a friend of mine Robert Bryan.

7th Floor NE C-1

A native of Baltimore MD, he received his BFA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design and his MFA in Visual Communication from The George Washington University. Joseph is a Graphic Design Professor at The Art Institute of Washington and Montgomery College School of Art and Design, where he teaches web design and other design related courses.

Some of his favorite artists are Jacob Lawrence, Auguste Rodin, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Piet Mondrian and Robert Rauschenberg.

Joseph feels it’s his responsibility as an artist, to design with a purpose. He says, “I have done my part to bring change. When I have reached the hearts and minds of my viewers To be the change Mohandas Gandhi speaks about. I understand it must first start with me”.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

HALF MAN/ HALF CHICKEN from the series with the same name