Joey Korom

Hi-Way Diner, Abstract Painting

2018

Artist Comments
Inspired by the forms and colors of a rural diner, artist Joey Korom expresses an abstract embodiment of a drive-in restaurant along the highway. "Placards advertising coffee, eggs, and more coffee dominate the diner's façade and roadside shoulders," explains Joey. He mimics these elements into expressive combinations of colors. Joey applies pastel brushwork in a conceptual and challenging way.

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, acrylicpaint, de Kooning, Motherwell, Mondrian, diner, abstract, architecture, acrylic painting, purple

Hi-Way Diner
Joey Korom
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2018
36 in. h x 36 in. w x 2 in. d
12 lbs. 3 oz.