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.

sammytown
2016

9 x 7 inches

celinetriptych
2016

5.5 x 4.75 inches

redradio
2016

11 x 10 inches

doorwaytowhitney
2015

A Companion to “Doorway to Joe” – a 4-year project to represent Coleman’s wife, Whitney Ward.
40 x 80 inches

jonathanshaw
2015

(Portrait of Jonathan Shaw) 6.5 x 5.5 inches

A Mother and Two Children
2010

Acrylic on found triptych
Overall (open): 4.5 x 6 inches
Overall (closed): 4.5 x 3 inches

Love Letter to a Coney Island Dark Ride
2010

Acrylic on found triptych
Overall (open): 5.25 x 6.375 inches
Overall (closed): 5.25 x 3.1 inches

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