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, Winterhalter’s painted works are devoted to the loaded weight and interplay of a painting's inherent presence as object, and the degree to which any articulated set of abstracted information may be utilized to address/influence everyday life.
Sifting through allusions to historic episodes and cultural tropes - including the legacy of abstraction in high Modernist painting, Derridian post-structuralist philosophy, and late 20th Century radical theory in practice - the works situate the viewer within a panoply of visual, material, and intellectual data. The resultant material/conceptual synthesis of these subjects in the paintings works 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 and apprehend the corollaries and disruptions inherent to the narrative fictions -- and non-fictions -- of our shared, collective experiences, teasing out the neglected threads embedded deeply within...
Joseph Winterhalter (b. 1965, Cincinnati, OH) received his BFA in Painting from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, in 1991, following previous studies in graphic design and Fine Art/Drawing at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning from 1984 to 1987.
Winterhalter attended the MFA Painting and Drawing program at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, in 1993.
Active in the underground/alternative art/music scene throughout the mid ‘80’s to present - including co-founding the interdisciplinary art space VOLK/C.S.P.I. (2000) - Winterhalter received an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant (2007) to offset surgical/medical costs after suffering a severe wrist fracture in studio as he prepared for his solo exhibition ‘Leaving the 21st Century’ at the Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati.
Winterhalter’s paintings, drawings, prints and performances have been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Cincinnati venues including the Weston Art Gallery at the Aronoff Center (2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2015); Clay Street Press (2012, 2013, 2019); the Contemporary Art Center (2001, 2005, 2006, 2015); the University of Cincinnati (2008, 2010, 2014, 2017); the Cincinnati Art Museum (2010); and the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (2023).
Nationally, he has exhibited at Ohio University, Athens Ohio (2023); Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL, (2016); the Editions/Artist’s Books Fair, New York, NY (2013), and the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. (2012), among others.
Winterhalter's paintings, drawings and prints are included in the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and private collections internationally.
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