Dream Machine, 2026 — oil and alkyd on wood panel with alarm clock

/// Oil Painting + Media Objects ///

Joe Hedges

Intermedia artist combining oil painting with consumer electronics, found devices, and new media. Based in Pullman, WA.

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Upcoming & Current

Telemetry

Eastern Washington University / Cheney, WA / Oct 1 – Nov 12, 2026

TBA

Gallery One Visual Arts Center / Ellensburg, WA / Jan 15 – Feb 5, 2027

Selected Works

All works

Interfaces

The Rider

2026

Cloud Control

2019

oil on canvas, oil on canvas over wood panel, monitors, CRT television with video of a B.F. Skinner training a pigeon, mini-computer, guitar pedals, cords, cables, time capsule, bubble wrap, video with sound of a prepared desktop performance utilizing Adobe Photoshop, Google Image Search and Quicktime

80 x 88 x 17 in

Hypercombines

Cloud Control

2019

Hallucinated Caravaggios

Phantom Limbs

2023

/// 04 / Writing

Machines & Dreams

Writing on making things by hand in an age of generative everything — on oil paint and algorithms, the disorientation of living inside two worlds at once, and why painting might still be useful in the 21st century.

All Writing Substack

/// Recognition

SECAC Fellowship — 2025
New American Paintings — featured artist, Issue 162
Research Enhancement Award — Washington State University, 2024
Create! Magazine — featured artist, 2024
GAP Grant — Artist Trust, Seattle, 2019
Innovate Artist Grant — 2019