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.

Portrait of Nancy
1988

Acrylic on panel, 10 x 8 in.

My Birth (1987)
My Birth
1987

Acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 in.

A Corner of My Room Joe Coleman
A Corner of My Room
1987

Acrylic on panel, 24 x 30 in.

Tom O’Leary’s Box
1987

Acrylic on wood box, approx. 7 x 10 x 4 in.

Self-portrait (1986)
Self-Portrait
1986

Acrylic on panel, 16 x 10 in.

Portrait of Professor Mombooze-o (1986)
Portrait of Professor Mombooze-o
1986

Acrylic on panel, approx. 60 x 42 in.

Hunting Humans
1986

Acrylic on panel, 11 x 14 in.

Altar to my by Demon Joe Coleman
Altar to My Demon
1986

Acrylic on panel, 20 x 14 in.

This is My Brother Bill
1986

Acrylic on panel, 10 x 8 in.

Portrait of David Owsley
1986

Acrylic on panel, approx. 22 x 16 in.

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