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.

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God Bless Us Everyone
1992

Acrylic on panel, 20 x 26 in.

Immaculate Conception (1992)
Immaculate Conception
1992

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 28 in.

“Prison Snitches” illustration for Hustler
1992

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 17 in.

Ticket to the Ghost Train
Ticket to the Ghost Train
1992

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 28 in.

“Prison Marriages” illustration for Hustler
1992

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 17 in.

Portrait of Albert Fish (1992)
Portrait of Albert Fish
1992

Acrylic on panel, 28 x 22 in.

Physician Heal Thyself (1992)
Physician Heal Thyself
1992

Acrylic on panel, 28 x 22 in.
Published as a print poster.

Auto-Autopsy (1992)
Auto-Autopsy
1992

Acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 in.

The Song of Old New York
1992

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 28 in.

The Ballad of Quantrill's Raiders (1992)
The Ballad of Quantrill’s Raiders
1992

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 28 in.

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