About Joe Guy...
I paint the boring bits. If paintings are scenes from a comic book, I approach each piece with the intention of completely ignoring the most exciting panel of the story and focus on the surrounding moments. The breath of air when the music pauses before the deafening crescendo. A fleeting minute that everyone ignores but binds us all as sentient creatures as we recall them in our old age. The boring bits we all want back in the end.
On the surface they're simply zombies, robots or people going about their lives in a green universe. But dig a little deeper and there are echoes of curiosity, excitement, lowliness, pure happiness, betrayal and every other conceivable emotion floating just beneath the surface of us all.
Using vivid colors and bold lines on canvas, I try to paint the calm moment found in blending the fantastic with the horrific by stealing ideas from pop culture, bad movies, good tv, corporate mainstream music, graffiti, my youth in Canada, my new life in the States, my older daughter bravery and my younger one's innocence.
