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Thursday April 23,  

From 5-7 

Artist Reception with complimentary hors d' ouevres.

and Zola Happy Hour!

Documentary

Here is a fantastic documentary video about Joe and his process.

Lets Talk Texture

detail image from "Santa Fe Gift" acrylic on fiberglass screen

The most stunning of details in Joe's Paintings are the extreme textures that are created with this experimental process. I won't be showing any works in their entirety on the blog quite yet. Instead just a few detail images of multiple pieces. Images that showcase texture. I hope to eventually focus on the pieces one at time in future posts.

detail NO. 1 is from "Turning Point" acrylic on aluminum

detail NO.2 is from "50's Scheme" acrylic on aluminum

detail NO.3 is from a large format piece entitled "The Elements" acrylic on fiberglass screen

The Process

The canvas is replaced with aluminum panel and the painting occurs underwater, over a period of time. Contemporary elements of time, temperature, and chance combine with sedimentation and evaporation processes to create works that give the artist a variety of new roles to pursue in the creative act. Many works are created outdoors, allowing temperature to play a role in the process. Pieces created during the winter months introduce actual frost patterns as compositional elements. Artistic control and aesthetic choices are co-opted by the process, varying the artist’s tasks as catalyst, facilitator, editor and at times, spectator.

This give and take makes for an exciting method of discovery where the visual product has many possibilities, but none can be assured or guaranteed. When nature imposes its will on the materials at hand, new twists develop, creating additional avenues to explore.

What happens once a panel is submerged is often entirely different from the assumed result.

“Some of my favorite pieces are those that paint themselves. The less they are interfered with and manipulated, the purer and often more beautiful they are. As a work begins it’s life underwater, the stage is set to allow nature’s quiet energies to become visible, giving form to processes that are as old as time.”

Another approach to art making on display here at Zola emphasizes a more traditional hands on approach, but the canvas is replaced this time with fiberglass screen.

For more information contact the artist at (814) 933-2126

The Artist

Joe Beddall, a local artist residing in State College, is a graduate of Kutztown University with a BS in Art Education. Further studies in printmaking and pottery were undertaken in the Washington DC area at Northern Virginia Community College and Hinckley Pottery Studio.

“The challenge to create truly innovative art today has led to the exploration of various elements and processes available to artists. One approach to art making I have explored has focused on the creative process itself, giving that process an additional function as content of the work. By harnessing various energies and elements of nature I have developed techniques that, at first glance, appear to represent conventional abstract paintings. But closer scrutiny reveals a visual product having little in common with traditional brush on canvas paintings. I call this process Waterworks. ”

You Are Invited.

You are Invited!

Contemporary artist Joseph Beddall has some amazing works on exhibit for the next 2 months at the Zola Gallery & everyone is invited to meet Joseph on April 23, from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock.

happy hour and complimentary hors d' oeuvres

Stay tuned as I post much more about Joseph's process, biography, and reception.