Joseph Castle
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Untitled, ed. 1/5
mixed media on canvas, 48 x 38 inches, $2000
Abstract 2
mixed media on canvas, ed. 1/5, 19 x 16 inches, $575
Abstract I
mixed media on canvas, ed. 1/5, 20 x 13 inches, $575
San Francisco Bay #2
mixed media on canvas, ed. 1/5, 54 x 30 inches, $2000
Untitled
mixed media on paper, 32 x 24 inches, sold
Face
ink and charcoal on paper, 32 x 24 inches, $4500
Abstract 39
stone
Speechless Observer 2
bronze, 12 x 4 x 1 inches, $2800
Speechless Observer 3
bronze, 12 x 4 x 1 inches, $2800
Speechless Observer 1
bronze, 12 x 4 x 1 inches, $2800
Relationship series V
bronze, 24 x 14 x 12 inches, $14000
Relationship series VI
bronze, 26 x 20 x 16 inches, $14000
Untitled black and white I
ink and charcoal on paper (framed), 30 x 20 inches (deckled paper size), $1650
Untitled black and white II
ink and charcoal on paper (surface mounted and framed), 30 x 20 inches (deckled paper size), $1650
Untitled black and white III
ink and charcoal on paper (framed), 30 x 20 inches (deckled paper size), $1650
About the artist...
My latest abstract series are drawings and paintings that are photographed, enlarged and morphed on the computer, then printed on paper or canvas and framed.
Art, for me, started in junior high when I made a baseball bat that I used that season. It was that process that fostered a love for the three dimensional. After graduating from college, I worked as an apprentice for Myron Barnstone, a sculptor in Allentown, PA, who provided a rigor for my craft and with time, I gained a vocabulary and the skills to go out on my own.
To find my voice, I moved to rural Idaho, and it is there that I became established in galleries, public art, and with collectors. Raw landscape and wildlife became my muse. The departure from Allentown removed me from Myron’s’ influence and I began to work with the human form in the series called Intimate Stranger, which was the result of visiting Walter Reed Hospital.
I have now returned to painting, drawing and printmaking and am working on a series of heads, entitled “Speechless Observers” as well as a series of abstract works on paper that hint at figurative or landscape forms.