Joe Andoe
New Paintings
March 22 - May 12, 2007

The following is a statement from Joe Andoe about his new paintings:
“My new paintings are Snowscapes.
There was one to many warm days this fall and early winter that it made me nostalgic for snow and that kind of insulation.
I could feel Innocents melting.
Snow didn’t stick anymore.
It’s because of implied grandiosity:
The promise of products and services that are making us poorer in every way.
The marketing of poverty masked as wealth and suggested need for more things to order and make; and then ship. Only to be thrown away because the same marketer will tell you how you need a new one now.
‘Go out and shop’
We will be told the day after we get the news that the last bit of snow melted.
‘The mall is air-conditioned.’”

Joe Andoe has been exhibiting worldwide for over twenty years. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. This will be the artist’s third show with the Earl McGrath Gallery-Los Angeles. “Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed”, by Joe Andoe and published by William Morrow (an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), is scheduled to be released in August of 2007.