Joey Korom

Before the Joust, Abstract Painting

2020

Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom expresses a vision of medieval sport in this mixed-media composition. He attaches strips of cloth to the canvas representing elements of jousting imagery. "An armed horse-riding knight's posture anticipates an upcoming charge," shares Joey. The tonal color palette fully matches his abstract minimalism.

About the Artist
Joey Korom is an abstract expressionist painter who has been a practicing artist for 50 years. He experiments with media, colors, and textures to produce artwork that is “purely optical;” that is, artwork meant to engage the viewer, visually and emotionally, without employing any associations outside of the work itself. Joey is passionate about this expressive type of abstraction, an artistic mode that escapes the rules of perspective and realism. His educational and professional background is in architecture, which he considers to be “the father of all arts.” The use of line, shape, and proportion in Joey’s work is visibly influenced by his experience as an architect, but he seeks to avoid the rigidity involved in architectural draftsmanship. He focuses instead on underlying structure, seductive color, and loose brushwork. The artist sees his style as a personal liberation from the demands of architectural drawing, and yet, he’s never lost the disciplines he was taught.

Words that describe this painting: New York School of abstract expressionism, abstract, tonal, mixed media, de Kooning, Motherwell, Mondrian, jousting, sport, abstract, sports, mixed media artwork, green

Before the Joust
Joey Korom
Paint, paper, and cloth on stretched canvas
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2020
30 in. h x 30 in. w x 2 in. d
11 lbs. 8 oz.