Paintings

Coleman’s portraits create complete biographies by surrounding their subjects with interweavings of minuscule images and explanatory text. Artist and viewer embark on exploratory excavations of the subject’s life through the painting. Coleman’s jewel-box approach means that one experiences the paintings afresh at each viewing, uncovering ever more details and nuances that were previously undetected.

An admirer of Northern artists such as Bosch, Brueghel and Grunewald, Coleman employs the same attention to detail and delicate sense of scale, utilizing dual and single haired brushes in conjunction with magnifying lenses to create his refined masterpieces. Like those artists, Coleman also displays a propensity for the gruesome and grisly and often attempts to both dissect and glorify the terrible in many of his paintings, unmasking with brutal honesty the truth of human nature.

A comprehensive list of every Joe Coleman painting since 1978.
If you own a painting that we do not have here, please contact us.

Contact Andrew Edlin Gallery if you are interested in becoming a collector.

sorcerersmirror
The Sorcerer’s Mirror at 100 Seconds to Midnight
2022

16 x 15 x 2.75 inches. This painting took five years to complete

hunterthompson
Gone Gonzo with Hunter (A Portrait of Hunter S. Thompson)
2021

20 x 18.25 x 2.2 inches

manet
Lunch on Grass with the Fairy Godmother of the Avant-Garde (Portrait of Edouard Manet)
2020

11 x 14 inches

jackblack
Portrait of Jack Black
2020

8.5 x 7.5 inches

adamparfrey
A Feral Man in a Feral Land (A Portrait of Adam Parfrey)
2019

19 x 14.75 x 1.75 inches

kingkhan
King Khan
2019

11.75 x 8 x 1.75 inches

archangelwhitney
A Vision of the Archangel Whitney
2019

17.5 x 12.75 inches

swiftrunner
Swift Runner and the Colonialist Windigo Effect
2018

41 x 33.5 inches. Painted from 2017-2018

busterkeaton
Buster
2017

3 x 2 inches

mickeycartin
Ta See Oursels as Ithers See Us
2016

(Portrait of Mickey Cartin) 22.125 x 22.625 inches

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