Meet Joe Black in articles from the artzine on artrepublic.com

Joe Black's work in its purist state cuts to the core of blue chip art and born-into pop culture. His work often serves to expose groups, movements and more often than not individuals as charlatans, greed-mongers and frauds.

This is done through a very genuine love and respect for the seemingly infallibility of comic books and fairy tales. It is this added element that makes the delivery of his messages often so visually appealing. Rather than serving a healthy platter of doom and gloom Black’s work comes to you in the form of a big, very friendly looking bear for example.

His last major showcase in Brooklyn, NYC, celebrated his role as art middleman; spinning answers in a marketplace where art titans and street artists remake each other , ultimately questioning who owns art and why do people make it?

Joe Black creates his very tangible work out of a diverse range of media, but his preference always lands somewhere around Lego, ball bearings and bespoke badges.

His technique of assembling photorealistic images from found objects is extremely advanced. The scarily precise formal elements are mirrored in their content. His specific icons and way of depicting them highlight a sinister piece of pop culture and the art world that, through infinite generations, will not leave.

Joe Black takes imagery from dozens of modern and contemporary art forms – be it fine art, film, design, popular television. He tends to blend a much known subject with a more subversive, underlying message. Ultimately the end result is more than just the sum of the parts. Welcome to post-street art.

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