Joe Andoe
Joe Andoe is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and in museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Early life and education
Andoe was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has written extensively about his childhood, youth, and early career in his memoir, Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed , which was published in 2007.Andoe enjoyed drawing as a child, but did not create artwork until attending college. Andoe first realized that painting could be his career when he was enrolled in community college studying agricultural business. He was taking an elective class in art history when he learned about artists such as Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim. He soon changed his major and eventually earned a Master's Degree in Art from the University of Oklahoma in 1981.
Art career
Joe Andoe's paintings primarily focus on horses and landscapes. They have been described as "lean" and "roughly poetic" by art writer Deborah Solomon, who wrote in 2019 that Andoe was "an important forerunner of the photo-based realism that has become the default style among younger artists today."The New York Times described Andoe's Me Copying Cy Twombly copying Picasso as incorporating "deadpan... conceptual humor", which was displayed in the 2023 "Echo of Picasso" group show honoring the artist's legacy. For his part, Andoe has stated, "Since the late ’70s I have fancied myself a landscape painter, and a painter of the things that hang around on the landscape."
Selected exhibitions and museum collections
Solo exhibitions
- 2023 Almine Rech Gallery, 'Echo of Picasso,' New York, NY
- 2023 Almine Rech Gallery, ‘New Paintings,’ Paris, France
- 2022 Almine Rech Gallery, ‘Chinatown,’ Shanghai, China
- 2021 Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, ‘The Catskills,’ Geneva, Switzerland
- 2017 University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. 'Horizon,' Norman, OK
Select public collections
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Fisher Landau Center
- Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
- The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection at the National Gallery of Art
- Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Saint Louis Art Museum
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- Sheldon Museum of Art
- Whitney Museum of American Art
Writing career
Amy Finnerty from the New York Times reviewed his memoir, writing, " suggests that Andoe is eager to depict himself as a raw and reckless sort... he is ardent but infantile, and his delivery is so deadpan that we’re never sure whether he’s self-critical or clueless."