Joe Sorren
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Joe Sorren于1970年出生在芝加哥，并在亚利桑那州的Flagstaff长大。他于1989年开始绘画，并于1993年获得 Northern Arizona 大学的美术学士学位。
之后，他开始在《Transworld Snowboarding》杂志担任创意总监。在纽约逗留一段时间后，Sorren在佛罗伦萨和巴塞罗那度过了几年，吸收了意大利和西班牙的艺术影响。
由于他图像的诗意、他的模糊焦点风景，令人联想到印象派大师，以及独特的笔触，Sorren迅速成为了美国流行超现实主义文化先锋场景中的杰出人物之一。
作为当代的"emotion lighting"大师，Joe Sorren以油画在大幅画布上绘画，使用能够唤起金色阳光的练的技巧。在他的个人创作过程中，艺术家允许他的作品自然而无意识地演化。
完成一幅绘画可能需要数月，甚至数年的时间。Sorren通过层层颜色来创作他的画布，注入质地与微妙的细微差别，从中生出生物和情景。
Joe Sorren的欢乐灵魂通过印象派的笔触而充满活力。他的艺术作品反映了艺术家内心最深的想象。Sorren的灵感来自于人类行为和集体经验。他将这些转化为无尽的、凝结时间的碎片。
用艺术家自己的话："由于绘画是时间流逝的物质记录，笔触不应该与黑胶唱片的沟槽不同，它不仅捕捉到笔触的颜色和形状，还捕捉到在绘制时经历的音调、能量和情感。"
层层颜料被一层接一层地添加，使一个形象可以自发地转化为沉浸在风景中的山，或者一棵树变成一个类似人类的生物。这种创作过程充满了想象力和探索性。
Sorren的大幅画作被神秘的生物所居住。这些生物被封闭在无法触及的海洋中。它们沉浸在自己的忧郁中，但在探索大自然奇迹时感到愉悦。Sorren总是在玩弄新的颜色和形式，突出他角色的温柔面孔和姿态。 他的人物以他独特的童话风格创作。
Sorren的情感主题异常动人，使我们能够回到童年的宁静、独特和永恒时刻。他的艺术作品出现在三本专题书籍以及《纽约客》、《Time》和《滚石》等著名出版物中。
他还与华纳兄弟、福克斯和美国全国广播公司（NBC）等公司进行了合作。在过去的15年里，他在美国和国际画廊和博物馆举办了个展，展示了他的作品。
在2010年，Sorren的作品在一些展览中展出，包括在布里斯托尔市博物馆举办的"Art from the New World"和在意大利Spoleto的Palazzo Collicola视觉艺术博物馆举办的"Pop Surrealism"，在 "Festival dei Due Mondi”的场合由 Dorothy Circus Gallery策划。
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Joe Sorren was born in 1970 in Chicago and grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. He began painting in 1989 and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Northern Arizona University in 1993. He then started working as a creative director for Transworld Snowboarding magazine. After an extended stay in New York, Sorren spent several years in Florence and Barcelona, where he absorbed both Italian and Spanish artistic influences. Thanks to the poetry of his images, his characteristic soft-focus landscapes reminiscent of Impressionist masters, and his distinctive brushstrokes, Sorren quickly became one of the prominent figures in the American Pop Surrealism cultural avant-garde scene.
A contemporary master of "emotion lighting," Joe Sorren paints in oil on large canvases, using a skillful technique capable of evoking the golden sunlight as it filters through the clouds of a summer storm. In his personal creative process, the artist allows his works to naturally and unconsciously evolve. It can take months, sometimes years, to complete a painting. Sorren creates his canvases with layers upon layers of color, infusing the texture with subtle nuances from which the creatures and scenarios emerge, captured from external emotions. The joyful souls of Joe Sorren come to life through impressionistic brushstrokes, reflecting the artist's deepest imaginings. Sorren's inspiration stems from human behavior and collective experiences, which he transforms into endless fragments of crystallized time.
In the artist's own words: "Since the painting is a physical document of the movement of time, the brushstrokes should not be unlike the grooves of a vinyl record, capturing not only the color and shape of a brushstroke, but the tone, energy, and emotion experienced in the time it was painted." Layers of paint are added one after another, allowing a figure to spontaneously transform into a hill immersed in a landscape, or a tree to become a human-like creature.
Sorren's large paintings are inhabited by mysterious creatures enclosed in an inaccessible ocean; they are absorbed in their melancholy, yet joyful in their exploration of the wonders of nature. Always playing with new colors and forms, Sorren highlights the tender faces and gestures of his characters, created in his distinctive fairy-tale style, and reproduces emotions like a sweet symphony emanating from our everyday gestures—a frame of happiness carved around the poetry of modern life. Sorren's emotional themes are extraordinarily poignant and allow us to take a step back into the serene, unique, and timeless moments of our childhood.
His artworks have appeared in three monographic books and prestigious publications including "The New Yorker," "Time," and "Rolling Stone." He has also collaborated with Warner Bros, Fox, and NBC. Over the past 15 years, he has exhibited his works in solo shows in American and international galleries and museums. In 2010, Sorren was featured in exhibitions such as "Art from the New World" at Bristol City Museum, and "Pop Surrealism," held at the Museum of Visual Arts at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, Italy, curated by the Dorothy Circus Gallery during the "Festival dei Due Mondi”.