Joe Flasch

A prolific artist, Joe Flasch approaches his art much like a Chinese calligrapher would. He has developed a collection of symbols, easily depicted in flowing brushstrokes, which function for him like pictograms. There are brushstrokes that symbolize such things as trees and people. When the symbols for people are joined together, they represent families. Many of Joe's paintings, though appearing to be wholly abstract, are actually such things as a family having a picnic in a park. Joe will proceed to repetitively fill his working surface with his brushstrokes, switching forms as ideas occur to him,and varying sizes and occasionally colors. He goes on until he is satisfied with the finished effect. Given that his methods remain static, his overall body of work displays an astonishing degree of variety, with each new piece achieving new effects of texture, and relationships of form and color.