Andoe strives for an utter distillation of image, ground, and color in his work. Not surprisingly, then, his inventory of subjects remains basic: horns, wreaths, candles, flowers, cornstalks, trees, cattle, buffalo, lambs, sheep, and, lately, horses.
Joe Andoe
Biography
“I tend to economize,” explains Joe Andoe, “I want to reduce images to their blueprint.”
Andoe strives for an utter distillation of image, ground, and color in his work. Not surprisingly, then, his inventory of subjects remains basic: horns, wreaths, candles, flowers, cornstalks, trees, cattle, buffalo, lambs, sheep, and, lately, horses.
Mentally prepared, but without a preparatory design, he begins with a blank canvas. He applies a layer of gesso to the canvas. Once the gesso has dried, he uses a palette knife to apply a thin layer of oil paint, building up the layers in certain places, and leaving other places with only a thin wash of color.
Andoe is bent on creating pared-down, timesless, and generic images; an attitude that extends to his use of a monochromatic, earth-colored ground. “By using earth colors, I further distill my images to next to nothing.”
1981 – M.F.A. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, ‘Rainbow Road’, Geneva, Switzerland
Fortnight Gallery ‘Power Cosmic’, New York, NY
University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. ‘Horizon’, Norman, OK
2015
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York ‘superhighway’
2012
FordPROJECT, NewYork, NY
2007
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX “Joe Andoe: New Horse Paintings”
2004
Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY “Joe Andoe: Paintings”
2003
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Joe Andoe: Town & Country”
2002
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO “Joe Andoe: Figures, Horses and Landscapes”
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Samtuh, Chongdam-dong Kangnam, Korea
2001
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE “Joe Andoe: The Nebraska Paintings”
Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2000
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA “Joe Andoe: Recent Paintings”
University at Buffalo Art Gallery Research Center in Art & Culture, Buffalo, NY “Joe Andoe: What You See”
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA “Joe Andoe: Paintings”
1998
Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “Joe Andoe: Dogs”
Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY “Joe Andoe: Print Editions”
Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN “Joe Andoe: Monotypes”
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
1995
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY “Joe Andoe: New Paintings”
Milliventi Sperone, Torino, Italy
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL “Joe Andoe: New Paintings”
1992
Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada “Joe Andoe: New Work”
1991
Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada “Joe Andoe: New Work”
1989
BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Michael Kohn, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
