Joe Sola works in a variety of mediums including video, watercolor, performance and drawing. In each case, he evokes the surreal and humorous aspects of everyday existence and its representations. Taking on a range of social norms, from manhood to the idea of the artist, himself, he asks us to pause and consider how we expect things to be. In his work for New Editions, Joe explores the possible dreamscapes of an infant, presenting a hilarious but astute rendition of one possible “sea of calm.”
Joe Sola's work has been exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, The Hammer Musuem, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts-London, and InSite 2000. He is represented by Bespoke Gallery in NYC, and Crisp London Los Angeles. Reviews of his work can be found in Artforum, Artforum.com, Art on Paper, Art Papers, ArtUS, Frieze, LA times, the New York Times and the New Yorker.
