Category Archives: Landscape Painting

New Painting included in Upcoming Auction at the Laguna Art Museum

Little Corona • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40" x 40"

Little Corona • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40″ x 40″

I’ve donated a recent painting to the upcoming Annual Art Auction at the Laguna Art Museum.

The work in the auction will be on view during Preview Week at the Museum Feb. 4-9, with the auction and after party happening on

February 9th.

This stylish event will showcase works of art from over 100 premier California artists such as Charles Arnoldi, Tony DeLap, Laddie John Dill, Manny Farber, Joe Goode, Helen Lundeberg, Kim McConnel, and more (click here for a full list of artists), which will be sold during an exciting silent auction as well as a fast-paced live auction led by Christie’s International Auctioneer Andrea Fiuczynski. Attendees will have the opportunity to support the museum’s extraordinary education and exhibition programs by adding works by prestigious California artists to their collections.” 

New Painting Series

Little Corona • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40" x 40"

Little Corona • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40″ x 40″

I’ve been working on some new paintings that deviate a bit from the work I’ve been doing in the last few years. They actually include some formal interests that I have been exploring in other work, but in these I am pushing a bit harder, and challenging myself to find different ways of building form and space, removing some traditional approaches to drawing and value as the framework for the image and letting the paintings hinge more on the color relationships.

I have many of these paintings underway. They are all based on paintings done from observation which therefore already include decisions about composition and color choices, so they really feel like reinvestigations of ideas that I am already exploring in the on-site work.

I’m interested in trying to create a bit more for the viewer to navigate in the apprehension of an object/image, or a painting/picture relationship.

One of the difficulties of posting these on the internet is that much of what is happening in the color relationships and interactions in these paintings doesn’t really translate to the computer screen, but I guess that is really one of the great things about paintings.

I’ll be posting more soon.

Little Corona (site painting) • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Panel 12" x 12"

Little Corona (site painting) • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Panel 12″ x 12″

Little Corona (detail) • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40" x 40"

Little Corona (detail) • Joe Forkan 2012 Oil on Linen 40″ x 40″

Residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland – July 2012

North 01 • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 6″ x 6.5″

I spent a month in Ireland this summer, returning to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, County Mayo for a month of painting. The first trip was amazing, but it was great heading to Ireland this time with a better sense of what was waiting for me there, in terms of possibilities for painting, and a sense I wanted to accomplish. I still worked fairly small on many of these, but plan to use these to develop some larger work as well.

North 02 • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 5.75″ x 6.5″

 

North 04 • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 6″ x 6.5″

 

Pasture Wall • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 20″ x 13″

 

Tree Line • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 20″ x 6.25″

 

 

Atlantic Storm 01 • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 9″ x 9″

Lead • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 9″ x 9″

Last Light • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 9″ x 9″

Fading Light • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 9″ x 9″

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Wave • Joe Forkan 2012, oil on ragcote paper, 11.75? x 13.5?

 

This Land, This Sea – Etherton Gallery – SHOW EXTENDED until June 9th.

I’m pleased to announce that This Land, This Sea, a three person exhibition of paintings and photography opens this week at Etherton Gallery, in Tucson, AZ. The paintings will be on view from March 20th – May 26, 2012.

The exhibit will include paintings by Nancy Tokar Miller and photography by Lisa M. Robinson. I am exhibiting paintings made during my residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland in the summer of 2010.

An opening reception is scheduled for this coming Saturday, March 24 from 7 pm to 10 pm at the gallery.

More information on the exhibit at Etherton Gallery can be found here.

More information about the paintings can be found on my blog here.

SKYLINES • Upcoming Exhibition w/ Crystal Yachin Lee @ Bunny Gunner Gallery

An exhibition of recent paintings by Joe Forkan and photography by Crystal Yachin Lee opens this Saturday at Bunny Gunner Gallery in Pomona, CA.