T. Joseph Enos

I got a new studio in  downtown Oakland at The Hive. It is really exciting to have a brand new space and not get in other people's way. It is awesome spot. It is a ten minute bike ride from my house and half way in between is The Linden Street Brewery!! That part of Oakland, west of the 880 freeway and along the estuary is the heart of Old Oakland. I have 4 generations in my family that have fished, worked, and lived in that very part of town and I am proud to make my art on sacred ground. By the way check out this map!!

I posted some new drawings I have been working on and a sculpture that was in my last show but did not post a picture of it yet. I am working out a performance/video and will be posting that very shortly. I will announce it when I finish it. Boo-Ya!!

I have new drawing I am making to share. They are small in size but I tend to make some large graphic paintings from them. They are pretty disgusting, but I am not sure why. Maybe it is all the goo and references to cartoon body parts. Who knows.
 

I learned to see the world through these images. I collected Mad magazine as a child and I still worship them.Check out what the NY times did with the Mad Fold-In. It is interactive!! Check it OUT!!! Click it to Fold!!!

I have posted new collages that I have been working on. Thanks to the world of trashy refuse!! I found some great imagery that I did my touches  with. Blobs, stains, goo, sludge, whatever you see or whatever reason you think I have behind my collages, I meant to do it.

New Pic's of the Artificial Nature Show Up!!
I got some fantastic pictures of my new work.
I am really proud of them and I hope they make
me look awesome. Let me know if you think I am awesomer
than a cold beer on a Sunday Afternoon, email me!!

Thank you for all who came out to the Artificial Nature show. It was a tremendous success thanks to Autobody Fine Art and especially Jaqueline Cooper who put the whole thing together. It was a demanding install and it hopefully paid off. I am right now working on documenting the work right now, though is not an easy thing. In the next week I will have pictures of the new work available on the website.



Also, I was featured in the Oakland Tribune last Sunday, August 2nd. It was a great article written by Jennifer K. Rumple who intervied me a the gallery the other week. She took some great pictures so please check it out and tell me what do you think. Please follow the link below to read the article that appeared in the Oakland Tribune:

Alameda artist reshapes his world in `absurd' creations

Lately my driveway has been my studio. It is sufficient and I get to enjoy why I live in the Bay Area. I have made a mess for all of my housemates for sure. I have collected many found objects to obscure and to create new modes of communication. I wanted to take small found objects and have an intimate relationship with them, creating a moment in time and visual language that quickly gets lost with the plethora of objects that pass through our lives. Also I have created my own false realities with my foam and plaster sculpture. It is an area boarded up with boards straight from a Disneyland like reality. Cartoon transgressed into daily life and associations.





All these pieces are a reflections of the critique of California. It is a labored subject matter but I try to critique a subject matter using the syntax of the subject I am critiquing. The titled of the installation will be Versailles (Ver-Sls), an example of  a califonia experiance. Versailles Avenue is the street I grew up on and it was named after the first residence of the area. By the time the street was named, no french  lived there and I am pretty sure it was never pronounced the correct pronunciation. They tried to make the early inhabitants a chef-d'oeu⋅vre, while recreating there own realities to sell an ideal.

"You can’t make art by making art"

David Ireland
August 25, 1935 - May 18th 2009

A self-described "post-discipline" artist guided by Zen thought and postmodern aesthetics, David Ireland was a beacon of artistic practice and conceptual action. Through his great fame and talent he gave a face to Bay Area Conceptual Art.  His practice was a direct reflection of living and working in San Francisco and Oakland area. All Bay Area owe many thanks to David and his work. What was great about David Ireland too was that he did not fully commit himself to art until he was in his early 40s, after traveling extensively around the world and working as an architectural draftsman, carpenter, designer, businessman and African safari guide; adding experience and insight to his work. A True Bay Area Artist.

Finally I have made a website and put my artistic endeavors on the world wide web. I have divided my works into for categories, Flat Work, Sculpture, Installation, and Performance. Soon I will be able to post my video and performance works on the website thanks to my friend Andrew Moore @  Completely Unmarketable. Thank you for checking out my work and please feel free to email me any questions or comments about my work, process and influences making art.