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Sex Machine after Duchamp's The Bride Pamela Joseph's Sex Machine, after Duchamp's The Bride, was exhibited this December, 2008 at Miami Art Basel in Francis M. Naumann Fine Art’s booth. For the second year, Joseph is in The Small is Beautiful show currently at Flowers Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City. In December 2007, Joseph was in a group show at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, entitled Les Demoiselles Revisited, which celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Picasso’s famous painting. Read a review from New York Magazine. Joseph will be having a solo show at Naumann’s gallery on 57th Street in the fall of 2009.

imageJoseph recently completed designing a label for Sombre, a mezcal liquor for Betts and Scholl, the sommelier Richard Betts and Miami Beach art collector Dennis Scholl.  Betts hunts down the quality vines and Scholl procures artists to design the labels. The company has released a total of seven vintages of wine since 2003. Learn more...

image A number of exhibits from Pamela Joseph's Sideshow of the Absurd were featured in Curious, Mysterious and Strange: Secrets of the Sideshow at artspace, a contemporary art center in Shreveport, LA, this past summer. The exhibition commemorated the dark and mysterious - taboo - aspects of the Circus Sideshow. A press release is avaible to download.

Foul Play Robert Brinker's solo exhibition, Foul Play, previewed at Sara Tecchia Roma New York in New York City this past winter. A die-cut catalogue of the works, printed in China, is available through the gallery or by contacting Robert directly. A press release is available to download.

Pamela Joseph and Robert Brinker were among ten artists invited by Matt Christie, director of Printmaking at Anderson Ranch Arts Center to create monotypes at The Patton Print Shop. The monotypes culminated in the exhibition, One Plus One in March. View the monoprints under Studio Projects: Monothon.

image Robert Brinker and Pamela Joseph exhibited in two shows in Beijing, China during 2007.  The first exhibit, Insatiable Streams, was in honor of the 10th anniversary of The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, and was accompanied by a full-color catalogue.

The second exhibition, Dialectic Places, at the National Art Museum of China, was a joint exchange of Chinese and American artists, curated by James Surls and Liu Xiaochun.


image Pamela Joseph announces the publication of a new paperback version of The Hundred Headless Women. The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University and MA Nose Studios, Aspen, Colorado, jointly published two hand-made, limited edition artist’s books by Pamela Joseph and Robert Brinker.Joseph’s book, The Hundred Headless Women , and Brinker’s book, The Recount of the Recount, were on exhibit at the National Art Museum of China along with other recent paintings and drawings.

image Both books have been acquired by numerous private and public collections including the National Museum of China, The New York Public Library, The British Library, and Henry Schein Inc., a Fortune 500 company.Private collectors such as Wynn Kramarsky, in New York City, have also bought copies. Other institutions are The Franklin Furnace, The American Academy in Rome, and The University of New Mexico.

To quote Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints at the New York Public Library: "Thank you for making such wonderful, soul-satisfying, rib-tickling, telling it like it is, books!  They are terrific."

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