Joe Sorren

Painting Sculpture 20042010. Joe Sorrens oil paintings redefine traditional naturalist scenery such as caves, reefs, and seashores, inserting a surreal mood through soft but eerie imagery, thick Impressionist-inspired brushstrokes, and childlike, yet animalistic, figures caught in mid-motion. The ne [...]
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Painting Sculpture 20042010. Joe Sorrens oil paintings redefine traditional naturalist scenery such as caves, reefs, and seashores, inserting a surreal mood through soft but eerie imagery, thick Impressionist-inspired brushstrokes, and childlike, yet animalistic, figures caught in mid-motion. The new gothic sentiment is subtly imbued in pale hued paintings that feature organic and distorted forms with exaggerated heads springing out of gelatinous blobs. This monograph of work from 2004-2010 is published in conjunction with the exhibition Joe Sorren - Ruby Lips Above the Water, Blowing Bubbles, Soft and Fine for