About

Painter, conceptual artist and writer/guitarist Joseph Winterhalter's multifaceted studio/performance work dissects layers of material data and information, manifesting interrogations of complex, intricate histories.  

Utilizing highly specialized and unorthodox material techniques (Russian Caravan tea, housepaint, wax, carpenter chalk, etc.) Winterhalter’s painted works are devoted to the loaded weight and interplay of a ‘Paintings’ inherent presence as object, and the degree to which any ‘art’ form may be utilized to address/influence everyday life. 

With allusions to historic episodes and cultural tropes -- including art history, High Modernism, post-structuralist philosophy, radical theory and practice –- these works situate the viewer within a panoply of visual, material and intellectual data.

Through painting, drawing and multi-disciplinary projects, Winterhalter's conceptual synthesis of these subjects serves to expose the abstract linkages - and subsequent degradation - of past, present and future historical narratives, suggesting new information that is still evolving and in the process of revealing itself. 

Winterhalter’s work ultimately provides coordinates to identify corollaries and disruptions inherent to the narrative fictions -- and 'non-fictions' -- which inform and condition our contemporary experience, teasing out neglected threads embedded within the deep -- and necessary -- counter-culture tradition of perpetual ‘Questioning.'