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Just Deal 1996 Mixed media, Collage, and Transfers 76 x 56 in.
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...Joseph's art includes references to Suburbia, the Funnies, Cowboys, the Circus, and the Movies. She spices up the nostalgic material by overlaying it with images of women, ranging from Marilyn Monroe and voluptuous 50's nude model queen, Betty Page, to contemporary lifestyle goddess Martha Stewart... |
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Princess Di Memorial 1997 Mixed media on Paper 42 x 42 in.
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...Joseph has a good eye for cliched images, plucking them from their everyday camouflage and setting them within her paintings and monotypes in ways that both confirm their prior emptiness and the artist's capacity to reawaken their mystery. Joseph's interest in Betty Page, for example, stems in part from her recognition that Page's sultry bondage and discipline image had a distinctly playful aspect... |
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Pop Tarts 1995 Mixed media and Collage on Wallpaper 49 x 37 in.
...Gamesmanship is more literally present in the game boards and scoring cards - bingo, roulette, pokeno, pinball - that appear in several recent works. Indeed, there is a teasing interplay between the pasted paper elements in Joseph's art and the way she mimics collage in her graphic and painterly techniques.
Joseph's sensuality is tempered, but not diminished, by experience. She is mature enough to have come of age in the 50's, but the sportive eroticism of her art speaks to still unjaded pleasure to be taken in the bountiful circumstances of the world."
Buzz Spector, November 1995. |
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Chicken Inspector 1995 Mixed media and Collage on Wallpaper 49 x 37 in.
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"Lust meets linoleum, Betty Page meets Martha Stewart, and female sexuality is met with complete and total accceptance. Playfully celebrating unbridled female lust in a delightfully un-P.C.manner, Joseph's work contrasts images of pin-up queens with every day clichés in an attempt to delineate the many faces of the modern woman."
Los Angeles Reader, April, 1996. |
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Touch Football 1995 Oils and Acrylics, Collage on Antique
Wallpaper, Metal 39 x 45 in.
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"Humor can get the message across without blunting it, as we see in Joseph's "Touch Football," a witty, slightly naughty take on playing the game in a man's world. Ms. Joseph suggests that the ladies have a few uniquely effective strategies for gaining yardage."
The New York Times, April, 1996.
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Under the Rainbow
1995
Oils and Acrylics on Wallpaper, Metal
34 x 25 in.
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