Joe Andoe (1955- )

Early Life
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up on the east side. In his autobiographical book, he describes growing up on the outskirts of Tulsa and getting into significant trouble with drugs and women. His early life would greatly influence his later art.

Education
MFA from University of Oklahoma, Norman 1981

Style and Characteristics
He has a monochromatic and minimalist style. He uses a reductive painting technique where he covers and entire canvas with thick black oil paint, then wipes off the paint while still wet to reveal an image beneath.

Publications
Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed 2007

Influences
Andoe on first becoming interested in art: “"I saw that there were guys [such as] Robert Smitson, Dennis Oppenheim — guys who wore cowboy boots, guys who looked like me — doing this stuff. I didn't really understand what they were doing, but they kind of looked like construction workers, like me and my friends, and they were doing this and it looked like they were havin' fun." (Interview on NPR 9/4/2007)

Works in other collections
The Detroit Museum Of Art, Michigan The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, The National Gallery of art, Washington, DC Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University, New Hampshire Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Fine Art, Boston The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Works in Collection
0127.2508