Joe Wardwell
Works
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Want Good Time, 2023 -
I am a New Man, 2023
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Present Company Excepted, 2022
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Have No Time for Love or Hate, 2022
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Creature Comforts Makes it Painless, 2021
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What is Strange Right Now, 2020
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No Bye No Aloha, 2020
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Indulge Yourself and Your Feelings, 2020
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Ready for the World to Take a Good Look, 2020
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Ship Without a Rudder is Like a Ship Without a Rudder, 2018
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What is Strange Right Now, 2018
Biography
Joe Wardwell is currently a Professor of Painting at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) and is the founder of the Brandeis-in-Siena program. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University (Boston, MA).
In 2022, Wardwell completed his first major public art project at the Boston Public Library, Roxbury Branch. His large-scale installations can also be found at prestigious venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, citizenM Hotels, Facebook Inc., the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Wardwell's paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, the Rollins Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, where his work is part of the permanent collection.
He has been honored with a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University's School of Creative Arts. Wardwell's solo exhibitions in New York, New Haven, Boston, and Seattle have been reviewed by respected publications including Art Forum, Art in America, the Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, and Boston Magazine.
Joe Wardwell lives with his family in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood and maintains his studio in Dorchester, MA, continuing to explore new frontiers in contemporary painting and public art.