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Waves (after René Magritte’s Clear Ideas), 2016
oil on canvas
36” x 42”

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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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Got some work in @newamericanpaintings! Pick up i

Got some work in @newamericanpaintings! Pick up issue 162 and find me!

#contemporarypainting #joehedges #myart #contemporaryart

random 2022 goodness. See ya out there!

random 2022 goodness. See ya out there!

Linus’s first time ice skating! He chose the son

Linus’s first time ice skating! He chose the song for this. #iceskating

There is truly nothing like the feeling of having

There is truly nothing like the feeling of having so many people sing a song you wrote. Still “processing” the big July For Kings show last weekend. It is remarkable that somehow five hundred people came out to see us in Cincinnati twenty years after our debut album was released. It is difficult to understand exactly how and why our music became—and remained—such a source of happiness and inspiration for people. This is an enormous source of pride and is also humbling. It’s difficult to put into words. My bandmates have always been more than friends. The cliche is true, they are like brothers and they have taken care of me (and still do) in many ways. I miss them dearly living out here in Washington. Saturday was an emotional night for band members and listeners alike as we reflected on our lives two decades ago, on all that has happened since and the enduring relevance and potency of music and memory across time. It’s a magical, cosmic thing. I am especially grateful to Aaron Thomas, Mark Borrison who Mc’ed, my sister LeeAnn who helped me decorate the stage, sound technician Jerry who made everything sound great, all the JFK guys who made the event possible and everyone who came out and was so ready to sing and have fun and reflect. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming of arcane intermedia art and the mundane comforts of daily life as an art professor.
Yours, totally whiplashed
Joe  
#singersongwriter #artist #rockmusic #postgrunge #julyforkings #july4kings #jfkforshort

Excerpt of “Flags”. I made this a few years ag

Excerpt of “Flags”. I made this a few years ago. As part of a critical practices class I was teaching I invited grad students up to the top of a butte for an afternoon and challenged them to make something interesting using limited materials and time. I only occasionally work with students and I didn’t have a plan to. but I had this orange fabric in the car. When I got to the top of the butte I noticed these orange flags around and just started playing around. I made the sound the next day.

#landscape #fabric #performanceart #butte #contemporaryart #butteful #artcollector #ecoart #whoownsthefuture #mediaart #artandtechnology #videoart #newmediaart #experimentalart #artexhibition #experimentalfilm #sounddesign #experimentalmusic #objectorientedontology #audiophile #hifi #lowfi #mediaarcheology #joehedges #艺术 #艺术家 #教师 #当代艺术

Vouet Torso oil on FM receiver 2022 — #contem

Vouet Torso
oil on FM receiver
2022

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#contemporaryart #oilpainting #installtionview #classicalpainting #representationalpainting #figurativepainting #portraitpainting #artistdad #artistfather #artistfamily #artcollector #newmediaart #intermediaart #multimediaart #artprofessor #inlandnorthwest #joehedges #emergencyblanket #identity #vouet #simonvouet

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My social media followers. 🤣 fyi I am looking

My social media followers. 🤣 fyi

I am looking forward to commemorating the 20th anniversary of the July For Kings (@julyforkings) debut album SWIM with an acoustic concert at the Woodward Theater in Cincinnati Ohio on Saturday November 26th. Joining me onstage will be nearly every awesome dude I performed with over the years. If you’re in the area i hope to see you there! if the ticket sales so far are any indication, in the audience will be a lot of people we haven’t seen in a long time.

When I was a teenager my best friends and I got bored and formed a band in southwestern Ohio. somehow we made a lot of local fans in a short amount of time. we signed a record deal. Thus, SWIM: an alternative rock album by July For Kings that was released on MCA Records in 2002. most of the songs were about my dad’s death or romance—some pretty intense emotions of loss and love. And just trying to figure myself out. as an artist and a young person taking those deeply personal and private feelings and wringing out of them some meaning for a public audience was a challenging but extremely helpful thing to go through. making that record and sharing it made me a better person, brought me a lot of lifelong friends, and gave me the confidence to pursue all kinds of other creative projects and leadership opportunities as an adult. And so I am forever grateful to my band mates and supporters.

the album is truly giving 2002 complete with gloriously distorted walls of guitars. I now sometimes find myself attempting to explain that music and that period in my life to contemporary art enthusiasts or my art students. or conversely, explain contemporary art to my admittedly-dwindling-in-number-but-still-committed music fans. I have been so very fortunate to already have had what feels like two fulfilling lifetimes of experiences in the arts. and I’ve come to terms with a sense of outward bifurcation. at the middle point in my life, i am lucky to have the time and means to reflect and celebrate this random early creative achievement. And with that, i need to go practice! 🎸🎤

@julyforkings #alternativerock #postgrunge #julyforkings #cincinnatimusic

Please come to my solo show closing reception tomo

Please come to my solo show closing reception tomorrow! (Thursday August 25th) at Northern Kentucky University. It's part of a "three-part exhibition that challenges the traditions of pictorial representation (landscapes/still life imagery) and reimagines these familiar motifs through a 21st century lens."⁠
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When: June 13 – Aug. 26, 2022⁠
Closing Reception: Aug. 25, 5-7 p.m.⁠
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Scenes from Nowhere⁠
Joe Hedges: "Pictorial Redux"⁠
Mark Albain: "Gates of Eden"⁠
Kyle Angel, MIR Collab, Stephanie Cuyubamba Kong: "Abject Dreamscapes"⁠

NKU SOTA Community Showcase Atrium, Main Gallery, Third Floor Gallery⁠
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#landscapepainting #contemporaryart #installationview #artcollector #attentioneconomy #whoownsthefuture #mediaart #artandtechnology #artandtech #newmediaart #oilpainting #artexhibition #myart #mediaarcheology #joehedges #combinepainting #paintingcombine #RobertRauschenberg #jasperjohns #namjunepaik

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