Solo(s) Project House presents:
SOLO PROJECT #2 -- joewaks.com:
A Kwalité Retrospective (#@$& OLD AND NEW)
joewaks.com: A Kwalité Retrospective represents the zenith of an unheralded career for Bayonne, New Jersey artist/bon vivant/Stratego enthusiast Joe Waks, a largely self-taught painter who harnesses his dueling passions — politics and popular culture — to manufacture layered images depicting the seamy underbelly of our hyper-plastic consumer society. And don’t you worry all you Waksaholics, there’s a heapin’ helpin’ of new %&$@ in this show too!
Opening Reception
When: Friday, May 28, 2010 -- 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.Show runs from May 28, 2010 to July 5, 2010
Where: Solo(s) Project House
972 Broad St.
Newark, New Jersey 07102
“Waks is hardly deserving of a retrospective, let alone a table in the corner at a ‘starving artists’ sale at one of those sleazy motels that rent rooms by the hour on Routes 1 and 9 in Elizabeth. He nevertheless is embracing this opportunity to spread his special brand of cockeyed optimism to a public starving for pork rinds and some good ol’ Jersey-brand common sense.”
Warburton Z. Pfeiffer
Visiting Distinguished Professor of 20th Century Art
University of Hawaii-Hilo
