Joe started this series in the early 1990’s and went on to other things around the end of that decade. He used acrylic paint on 300lb paper.
The images reflect his introspective mood during that period and the work he was doing on dreams.
In THE STUFF OF DREAMS Joe is unencumbered by preconception and convention. Each image is obedient only to the current internal story or vision. The impact on the viewer appears to get great energy from his ability to maintain consistent allegiance to each individual psychic event. The way he tells it… nothing difficult or rigorous is afoot. He often begins with humor or opinion or a specific story or an idea for a gift to a child… but he appears to let each separate interior dreamy reality finish the work.
In other work he uses similar materials creating more realistic and less surreal images. He is considering starting on a series of floral scenes. He may try focusing on photography.
Joe is in his mid 70’s and lives in Mount Vernon Washington.
The Opening brought only a few viewers. Joe and his wife Lee attended with no one to ask questions but Connie and Chuck. We had a fine talk including how Lee advised Joe about The Lutist but no other image. The nature of dreams, the nature of painting, the nature of human development. How is human development propelled by the dream world and how is that related to the discovery by an individual of their personal voice? Chuck and Lee remembered their shared experience of clinical staffings at Catholic Community Services Family Clinic in 1990 and 1991. They shared the same staffings and many of the same cases but appeared to have quite different experiences of the staffings and the cases. Joe spoke of his painting quietly as if puzzling about them. They came from dreams but where did the dreams come from? The painting happened... to him.
One young child who came to the 13 indigenous Grandmothers film event with his mother looked at In The Cave. He asked, "Where is Bambi?" Later, as the documentary proceeded, there was a split second image of a deer on the screen. The boy reacted. Everyone who had heard the boy mention Bambi knew that the image of the deer (which was an actual picture of a deer in a natural setting) was Bambi. Some things transform into other things without apparent human effort. Some events occur to us without our being aware of volition. Is this a consequence of an unknown choice? Is this the consequence of the choice of another? Is this the consequence of time and chance? What part do time, awareness, the choices of others and chance play in the dream world, in the waking world and in the discovery of individual voice? Why am I talking about "voice" when the subject is Joe's pictures?
Before and after Hal Pullin's talk (08-20-2011): To Bloom Or Not To Bloom, those attending looked closely at the work and discussed the images, the meaning, and the context the images created and the context Hal's talk created.
Over the course of the show at least 100 people saw the work.
Joe has sold at least two of the paintings in this group.
The Music Begins
and
Walking Like A Duck
To purchase paintings contact the artist: Joe Furin 360.424.5434
JOE FURIN
JOE FURIN THE STUFF OF DREAMS
OPENING: Saturday July 30, 2011, 6:00PM to 8:30PM
SHOW: Saturday July 30, 2011 thru Saturday September 3, 2011
For information on purchasing Joe's work, contact Joe Furin directly at: 360.424.5434
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