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.

Liz Renay
Liz Renay
2010

Acrylic on found triptych
4.7 x 3.1 inches

Gorcey (2006)
Gorcey
2006

Acrylic and mixed media on panel, 30.5 x 33 cm.

What God Hath Joined Together
What God Hath Joined Together
2006

Acrylic on panel in hand-painted integral frame Overall (open): 7.625 x 6.625 inches

Joaquin Murieta
Joaquin Murieta
2006

Acrylic on panel in hand painted frame
15.25 x 18.25 inches

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Father of my Mother
2006

Acrylic on Found Panel

Behold Eck (2006)
Behold Eck
2006

Acrylic on panel, 85.7 x 103.8 cm

Grosz (2006)
Grosz
2006

Acrylic on panel, 48.3 x 40.6 cm

Gertie (2006)
Gertie
2006

Acrylic on panel, 21.6 x 30.5 cm

Indian Larry's Wild Ride (2005)
Indian Larry’s Wild Ride
2005

Acrylic on panel with welded metal frame, 111.8 x 120.7 cm

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Muzzlers, Guzzlers and Good Yeggs
2005

Acrylic on board (used for cover of book of the same name)

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