Artsy: Accentuate the Negative: Bo Joseph's Painted Silhouettes Reveal Hidden Connections within Blank Spaces
April 23, 2015 - Anna Furman
"Bo Joseph's complex, patterned paintings are the result of a process of deconstructing and reconfiguring forms and materials, often leaving the results up to chance. He plucks images from auction catalogues and books, traces them, lathers them with paint, then peels off said layers of paint, and outlines the fragments that remain. Several of these works, currently on view at Sears-Peyton Gallery, explore what happens when objects are stripped of their cultural, religious, temporal, and geographical contexts and assigned new meanings."
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