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Agnus Hominis

oil painting by Joe Hedges

Agnus Hominis (after Zurbaran), 2015. oil on canvas. 22″ x 30″

Agnus Hominis (After Zurbaran), 2015
oil on canvas
22″ x 30″

installation view at the Washington State University Museum of Art

installation view at the Washington State University Museum of Art

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I am an intermedia artist living and working in eastern Washington state. I grew up in Ohio where I had a short career as a recording artist before returning to the visual arts. My visual art now makes use of a diverse background in web design, music and painting to make works that are part-painting and part-new media installations. I also continue to write songs that balance acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Read more…

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Just for fun. Citrus power! 🍊🍋🔌🔋Lens b

Just for fun. Citrus power! 🍊🍋🔌🔋Lens based photo, Photoshop and AI assisted processing.

It’s true—I may even be thinking about the Rom

It’s true—I may even be thinking about the Roman Empire right now. 🤪 For one year while I was taking Latin in high school I was the Ohio Junior Classical League State Historian. 🥸🏛️#SPQR

Infrastructure
oil and spray paint on canvas and satellite dish
2023

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#oilpainting #capriccio #spraypaint #streetart contemporaryart #cords #cables #electronics #electronicart #artcollector #attentioneconomy #GiovanniPaoloPanini #whoownsthefuture #mediaart #artandtechnology #artandtech #newmediaart #alwaysthinkingabouttheromanempire #dishnetwork #romanempire #artexhibition #objectorientedontology #myart #mediaarcheology #joehedges

Most images in the world today are “read” at a

Most images in the world today are “read” at a scale of three inches: the width of a smartphone screen. That caterpillar size and split-second speed leaves us in a state of unconscious longing—longing for something physical, for something lasting and for something that has a relationship to our bodies rather than our eyes. that feeling of being in a state of suspended dissatisfaction is sold as time to advertisers. it’s a major time trade and a raw deal. perhaps the greatest misuse of human ingenuity, attention and time in the history of the world. Right? (Even worse than the bedazzling craze in the early 2000’s which I participated in). the role of artists is, I think, increasingly to fight against this condition and to assert the value of our bodies by asserting the value of objects and experiences that might engage our bodies (or that formerly engaged our bodies). Life shouldn’t be so... optical. images shouldn’t be so small and so cheap.

I was making work with phones in 2018 then kind of got away from it. I’m going to try and find a way back into some “smart phone paintings” whatever that means (while keeping my larger combine things going). Been playing with dummy phones and the thumb stroke—the unfortunate and ridiculous contemporary gesture. Today I was thinking about making a gigantic fake thumb to make paintings with. 😂 What’s wrong with me? Don’t answer that.  ___  #timetrade #threeinches #artoftheday #artofinstagram #joehedges #artist #smartphonepainting #smartphone #aliceinwonderland #shunken #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

I haven’t made much progress on Chinese in the l

I haven’t made much progress on Chinese in the last few years but I have maintained the very basics thanks to somewhat regular practice sessions with an online tutor (we don’t speak much Chinese at home). An elementary proficiency is vital in China where few people (relative to the general population) are comfortable speaking English. Last year I was really beginning to lose motivation, so this opportunity to exhibit in Shenzhen came at a great time. If you are interested in learning Mandarin DM me I love to talk about it!

Caravaggio-inspired painting that is not about Mar

Caravaggio-inspired painting that is not about Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s proposed cage match. and also not about the Barbie movie. Enjoying how (in person) this area of negative space/color field vibrates against the subjects.

Phantom Limbs⁠
oil and spray paint on canvas⁠
60’ x 54’ ⁠
2023⁠
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Monarch⁠
oil on custom panel with found stereo ⁠
20” x 20”⁠
2023⁠
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If you need to find a broken washing machine in Sh

If you need to find a broken washing machine in Shenzhen I got the sweet hookup. 😂 I had Enclave gallery staff take me on a field trip to a dump with old appliances. I was so excited that the gallery was into this idea. it is my favorite piece in the show. I also made sound for it while I was doing my laundry at the hotel. It’s a washing machine concerto and it sounds just like you think it would sound. ⁠up at Enclave Contemporary in Shenzhen until September
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It’s Still Untitled
oil and spray paint on unstretched canvas, trash bag, thread, XLR cables, paracord, emergency blanket, washing machine, sound ⁠
2023⁠
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Game this Algorithm⁠ oil and spray paint on canv

Game this Algorithm⁠
oil and spray paint on canvas⁠
48” x 60” ⁠
2023

Been looking at Caravaggio paintings, the way they give corporeal form to spiritual struggle. It probably sounds extreme but during the advent of AI I think we are beginning a spiritual struggle for what it means to be human, to exist in a body. You can’t really participate in the privatized internet without being “objectified” in some way.

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#contemporaryart #oilpainting #Caravaggio #classicalpainting #italianart #representationalpainting #figurativepainting #portraitpainting #streetart #spraypaint #graffiti #artcollector #newmediaart #intermediaart #multimediaart #artprofessor #inlandnorthwest #joehedges #figurativeart

Disciple⁠ oil on custom panel with found stereo

Disciple⁠
oil on custom panel with found stereo ⁠
24” x 24”⁠
2023⁠

Found objects and in particular media devices have a utility beyond the optical. Because they have a three-dimensional form their presence within a digital image like this one helps to assert the flatness of the adjacent substrate. The found objects in my works also reveal the scale of the work as it’s represented by a digital image. Why not use a stereo as a standard unit of measurements for paintings?

the found object gets elevated. But the painting also gets demoted, or at least it resists being demoted and this resistance is interesting to me. paintings are containers but all things in a way have desires. A soup can wants to be opened a painting wants to be experienced, to be photographed. A radio hates to be so quiet.
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