JOSEPH SHAHADI

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Photographs + Works On Paper

Group Show, “Bay Ridge SAW” Bay Ridge Brooklyn Storefront, May 2016
 
Group Show, “Work of Body” The Panama Art Factory, April 2, 2016
 
Solo Show, “POP (ARAB) POP” Callahan Gallery, St. Francis College, August 2014
 
Group Show, “The Art of Brooklyn” Callahan Gallery, St. Francis College, August 2011
 
Group Show, “HOME-LAND” 49B Studio, November 2010
 
Group Show, “Gutted” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), February 2010
 
Group Show, “The Lack of Desire” BAC Gallery, January 17-April 11, 2008
Photo Series

"Landmarks"

2004-2016

This series is based on the marks left behind in urban spaces-- adhesive residue, sodden paper, layers of peeling paint, advertising and graffiti. It was shot in Vienna, Austria and New York City.
Photo Series

"TV Eros"

2008

I made these images during an extended period of chronic Insomnia. Night after night I sat up watching television, not asleep or entirely awake. Eventually I picked up my camera and began to photograph the flickering tube TV screen using a consumer camera — one outmoded image-making machine facing another — and made a series of images, and a single, red-eyed self portrait. The resulting pictures have a pixelated texture and painterly quality — some saturated with color and some dreamy and pale. I shot them at random and when I was editing them afterward they all seemed to be about frustrated desire. And, like my thoughts when I made them, feverish.
Photo Series

"TV Mythos"

2009

These images, made using the same technique as the earlier TV Eros group, seemed archetypal or atavistic in comparison.
WORKS ON PAPER

Various

Ongoing

These pieces were made using a variety of techniques-- cutting and layering images and text from advertising and the news, writing on them with black permanent marker and white paint, gluing them into different shapes.
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