Joe Doyle (artist)

Joe Doyle (born 1941) is an American artist. He is one of the original painters in the style, abstract illusionism, of the 1970s and has since evolved his style using computerized technologies to create Digital art.

For other people named Joe Doyle, see Joe Doyle (disambiguation).
Joe Doyle
Born
Joe Doyle

February 27, 1941
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco State University
Known forPainting
MovementAbstract Illusionism

Life and work

Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground".[1] By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe l'oeil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly, George D. Green, and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum.[2]

According to an interview by Mark Levy in the January/February, 1982 issue of Art Voices,[3] Doyle began his artistic career in the Air Force, where Doyle says he was relieved of difficult assignments and encouraged to paint by a sergeant who appreciated his realistic landscape paintings. When he began painting abstractly, however, the sergeant relegated him to K.P. duty. Following the Air Force Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House (1971).

Doyle is currently an instructor and co-chair of the Digital Arts Department at Berkeley City College. In 2010 then Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and the Berkeley City Council recognized Doyle and the Berkeley City College’s Digital Arts Club (DAC) for "its talent, creativity, and its many years of artistic contributions to Bay Area galleries and exhibits.".[4] His most recent work delves into the realm of both 3-D realism and 3-D non-objective abstraction. In 2017 he released a new series titled "New Abstracts" employing the use of 3-D modeling and color fields to create an illusion of 3-dimensional space.

Died April 2020

Solo exhibitions
  • Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008
  • Harcourt's Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991
  • Kennedy Art Center, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA 1990
  • "Joe Doyle New Work", Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 1988
  • Illinois Metropolitan Center, Chicago, IL 1986
  • J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL 1985
  • Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX 1985
  • Route 66 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1984
  • Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1983
  • Route 66 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1982
  • O. K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ 1981
  • Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • San Jose Museum of Fine Art, San Jose, CA 1979
  • Nuage, Environment for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1977

Group exhibitions
  • Oakland Symphony Showcase, Oakland CA 2010
  • Thinking Big, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA 2009
  • Printing on the Edge, Alameda Historical Museum, Alameda, CA 2009
  • Art of Jingletown, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA 2006
  • "Four from California," Yozo Ueda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1988
  • "The Goldstrom Collection", Davenport Art Center, Davenport, Iowa (National tour) 1988
  • Midwestern Museum of Art, Elkhorn, IN - 1981
  • "The Controlled Gesture -Aspects of Bay Area Abstraction," 1980
  • Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1980
  • "George Irwin Collection,· Krannert Museum, IL 1980
  • Selections from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Oakland Museum," Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 1980
  • "Reality of Illusion,· University of Southern California, Touring Show 1979
  • Aesthetics of Graffiti," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1978
  • "Bay Area Artist, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA 1977
  • "The Annual," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1977
  • "Six East Bay Painters," Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA 1977
  • "Art for Collecting and Giving,· San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1977
  • San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1975
  • "Options 73/30,· Contemporary Ar~ Center, Cincinnati, OH 1973
  • "Arts and Industry," Brooks Hall, San Francisco, CA 1971
gollark: I mean, abstractly, most people probably do or at least claim to.
gollark: There's nothing wrong with doing good in a way which also brings you some profit.
gollark: Oh no, imagine doing good things and having a system reward you slightly for it via tax writeoffs?
gollark: I mean, Bill Gates is good, he's donated lots of money to philanthropic causes.
gollark: You could actually do something about homelessness or whatever. Most people could. Capitalism mostly aggregates people's preferences into results, ish. But most people do not seem to care about poverty/homelessness enough to act on it, beyond sometimes saying that if you go along with [DRASTIC CHANGE TO ENTIRE ECONOMIC/SOCIAL/POLITICAL SYSTEM] the whole problem will magically evaporate.

See also
  • Abstract Illusionism

References
  1. Harcourts Contemporary Gallery press release
  2. Reality of Illusion, Donald J Brewer, University Art Galleries of The University of Southern California 1979 ISBN 0-9602974-0-5
  3. Mark Levy. "Joe Doyle", Art Voices. January/February, 1982, p. 33
  4. "Berkeley City Council honors Digital Arts Club". 15 December 2010.
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