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.

“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.

I Am Joe’s Circulatory System (1991)
I Am Joe’s Circulatory System
1991

Acrylic on panel, 20 x 26 in.
(Cover of Cosmic Retribution)

“Porn Stars” illustration for Hustler
1991

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 17 in.

“Jack Ruby” illustration for Hustler
1991

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 17 in.

“Gang Rape” illustration for Hustler
1991

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 17 in.

Junior’s Homecoming Party
1991

Acrylic on panel, 20 x 26 in.

Serpentina, the Snake-Eyed Torso
1991

Acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 in.

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The Need to Incorporate Sexual Fantasy into Everyday Life
1991

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 28 in.

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