Joe Biel | works on paper

We are pleased to announce our second one-person exhibition by Joe Biel, an artist from Los Angeles. Refined and spare in execution, Biel's confident lines describe a world where everything extraneous to the central subject is left out of the composition. His seemingly passive protagonists, most often male, operate in a space of the unconscious and free association where the macabre is commonplace and the humor is Gothic. Whether suffering from mild trauma or conflict, Biel?s subjects seem autobiographically driven, but speak to universal experiences and anxieties.

"I am most interested in charged human situations. This interest is reflected through various means in particular works; sometimes by portraying a particular moment or event, but more often by showing the moment before or after an action which is not named or specified. I'm more interested in the suggestion of narrative possibilities than in clearly resolved linear narratives, though it seems important that certain details (i.e. gestures, expressions, clothing, object types) remain quite specific. For me it is in the possibility of the more general metaphor meeting the peculiarly specific that images start to realize a greater, more layered potential." -Joe Biel

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PHILOSOPHER, 2005
Graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
$3,000.




VIEWER, 2005
Graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
$3,000.




MATCH, 2005
Graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
$3,000.

DANCERS, 2005
Graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
$3,000.

TAP DANCER, 2004
Graphite on blue paper
15 x 11 inches
$1,000.

TORCH, 2004
Graphite on blue paper
15 x 11 inches
$1,000.




MASK II, 2004
Graphite on blue paper 15 x 11 inches
$1,000.




MASK I, 2004
Graphite on blue paper 15 x 11 inches
$1,000