A new exhibition poster from the 2014 Lebowski Cycle Exhibition is now available.
The poster commemorates the exhibition at College of the Canyons Art Gallery, in Santa Clarita, CA.
The exhibition is on view from Oct 28 – Dec 10, 2014. Info is here.
$28.00 including FREE Shipping and Handling within Continental US. • $10.00 additional shipping for orders outside continental U.S.
The poster is an 18″ X 25.25″ Digital Offset Print – Limited Edition of 200 – Signed and Numbered by the Artist.
Limited Edition prints of all of the paintings from the Cycle are available, and the 2011 Exhibition poster featuring The Oath of the Horatii is also still available.
Orders can be placed here.
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (after Caravaggio) • Joe Forkan 2014 Oil on Linen 72″ x 40″
l am pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of The Lebowski Cycle at College of the Canyons Art Gallery in Santa Clarita, CA, from Oct 28 – Dec 10, 2014.
There will be an opening reception and artist talk Tuesday, October 28th from 2-5 pm, as well as a closing reception from 3-7 pm on Dec 6th.
The exhibition will include all 14 of the original large scale paintings from the Lebowski Cycle, plus a recently completed 15th painting from 2014, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, seen here.
The Lebowski Cycle installed at The College of the Canyons Art Gallery
Hours and directions to the gallery can be found here. I’ll be posting additional information about the show and more about this painting soon. 
Detail • The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (after Caravaggio) • Joe Forkan 2014 Oil on Linen 72″ x 40″
The Darkened Room opens today at the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. The show is comprised of a series of figurative monotype triptychs and a video piece that combines dozens of monotypes, drawings and paintings into thousands of shifting images in a looping meditation on the complexities of memory. Below are a few examples, plus some details.
Elizabeth Portrait 09 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
detail • Elizabeth Portrait 09 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
Elizabeth Portrait 03 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
detail • Elizabeth Portrait 03 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
Elizabeth Portrait 01 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
detail • Elizabeth Portrait 01 • Joe Forkan 2013, monotype, 22″ x 30″
Detail – Jester (After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid) • Joe Forkan oil on linen, 48″ x 76″ (121.92 cm x 193.04 cm)
I just received some new photos of The Lebowski Cycle paintings that I had shot while the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion exhibition was still up. Photographer Susan Einstein did a great job and I got many very clear detail shots like the one above (the complete painting is here.) I’ll be swapping out some of the post images for some of the clearer ones from this shoot, and posting more process info on the paintings soon.
The show is down now, but most of the paintings (and a few additional ones) are going to travel to an exhibition of The Lebowski Cycle at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL
That exhibition opens at the end of February 2012.
More on that soon.
An exhibition of recent paintings by Joe Forkan and photography by Crystal Yachin Lee opens this Saturday at Bunny Gunner Gallery in Pomona, CA.
