Joey Korom

Third Day Warning, Abstract Painting

2021

Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom demonstrates an abstract take on street art. "An element of refuse easily discarded is incorporated into a third-day warning," says Joey. The placard warns of an impending street closure and a mandatory car move. Joey offers a nod to the work of Robert Rauschenberg, an artist who famously uses like elements in his collages.

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, mixed media, de Kooning, Motherwell, Mondrian, text, color block, abstract, mixed media artwork, grey

Third Day Warning
Joey Korom
Acrylic pain and cardboard sign on stretched canvas
Natural wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
30 in. h x 30 in. w x 2 in. d
11 lbs. 8 oz.