Joe Sola will be the officiant for the wedding, which means he will be the voice of the ceremony, the guide for the guests and the celebrant for the couple.
The Studio Visit, 2004-2005, video still
Joe works in a variety of mediums including video, watercolor, performance and drawing. In each case, he evokes the surreal and humorous aspects of everyday existence and its representations. Taking on a range of social norms, from manhood to the idea of the artist, himself, he asks us to pause and consider how we expect things to be. In his work for New Editions, Joe explores the possible dreamscapes of an infant, presenting a hilarious but astute rendition of one possible “sea of calm.”
Joe Sola’s most recent exhibitions are: Hard Targets: Masculinity and Sport at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2008-9, Mixed Signals, at the Cranbrook Museum of Art (2009), The Studio Sessions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2009), Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, BC. (2009-2011). He is represented by Blackstone Gallery in New York, Hilary Crisp in London, and The Happy Lion in Los Angeles. Reviews of his work can be found in ARTFORUM, Artforum.com, Art on Paper, Art Papers, ArtUS, Frieze, LA times, the New York Times and the New Yorker.