JOSEPH MELANCON

Joseph is a versatile artist whose range of work includes painting, collage and sculpture. He paints on paper, wood panels and canvas. Lifelong interests include landscape, figure, antique toys, the circus and the American Indian are portrayed with multilayered meaning using abstraction, as well as expressive realism. His works are very personal with a passion for process, composition and the painterly surface. Design and dimensional production work in science and history museums and advertising media contributed greatly to Joseph’s extensive knowledge of methods and materials used in his work. For many years he taught drawing and painting at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas in addition to giving workshops and lectures/memos across the country.