Dark Skull • Joe Forkan 2015 Oil on Linen 20″ x 20″
Last year I began started teaching a drawing class on Heads and Hands at CSU Fullerton. I ordered a couple of skulls for the class, and had also been experimenting with some new paints (trying some different lead whites from several different makers – needing to find US sources now that the EU has gotten so skittish about lead white). So when the skulls arrived, I jumped into a couple paintings from them. I set up the first one in a very dark corner of my studio, and the second I placed near a north facing window, mostly just looking at color and form.
The paintings are largely about color, paint, and close looking.
These are 2 of the 3 paintings included in Fleshed Out, a group show at Q Art Salon, in Santa Ana, CA, on view from Dec. 5 – Jan. 1, 2016.
Detail • Dark Skull • Joe Forkan 2015 Oil on Linen 20″ x 20″
Yellow Skull • Joe Forkan 2015 Oil on Linen 20″ x 20″
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 Death of Marat (After David) • Joe Forkan 2008, oil on linen, 96″ x 58″
I’ve had a few requests to put all of the original 14 paintings from The Lebowski Cycle into one post. So, here they are. (Update: A 15th Painting is also included now). The source paintings and more info about the Cycle can be found deeper in this blog. It looks like there will be a couple of exhibits of the original paintings coming up in the next year, one in California, and one in New York. Check back for more info. Also, I’ll be printing some limited edition giclee prints in the near future. Send me an email if you want to be notified when they are available.
Oath of the Horatii • Joe Forkan 2006-2010 Oil on Linen 72″ x 40″
The Lamentation • Joe Forkan 2006-2011 Oil on Linen 72″ x 40″
Sacred and Profane Love (After Titian) • Joe Forkan 2011 oil on linen, 72″ x 40″ (182.88 cm x 101.60 cm)
The Agony in the Garden (After Carracci) • Joe Forkan 2006-2011 oil on linen, 76″ x 48″ (193.04 cm x 121.92)
The Deposition from the Cross (After Pontormo) • Joe Forkan 2011, oil on linen, 72″ x 40″
Baptism of Christ (After Carracci) • Joe Forkan 2011, oil on linen 24” x 38″”
Supper at Emmaus (After Caravaggio) • Joe Forkan 2006-2009 oil on linen 96″x 38″
The Raft of the Medusa (After Géricault) • Joe Forkan 2011, oil on linen, 84″ x 144″
Venus • Joe Forkan 2011, oil on linen, 72″ x 50″
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (After Friedrich) • Joe Forkan 2009, oil on linen, 80″ x 48″
The Taking of Christ (After Caravaggio) • Joe Forkan 2009, oil on linen, 72″ x 40″
Ecce Homo (After Guercino) • Joe Forkan 2009, oil on linen, 72″ x 40″
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (after Caravaggio) • Joe Forkan 2014 Oil on Linen 72″ x 40″
Jester (After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid) • Joe Forkan oil on linen, 48″ x 76″ (121.92 cm x 193.04 cm
An exhibition of recent paintings by Joe Forkan and photography by Crystal Yachin Lee opens this Saturday at Bunny Gunner Gallery in Pomona, CA.
