Joe Greer

Lives and works in Ridgewood, NY

Ridgewood based artist Joe Greer has exhibited work in numerous shows throughout Europe and the United States, as well as recent participation in a curatorial capacity with Automatic Wag. Greer creates assemblages out of found objects, warped and woven together to often anthropomorphic ends. In some cases he uses familiar materials to create unfamiliar forms, while in others the opposite is true. Out of disparate parts – be they organic, synthetic, or refuse of entirely unidentifiable origin – Greer creates compositions that are unsettlingly human while retaining their contextual and structural ambiguity. With resultant sculptures evoking the sublime eeriness of the Brothers Quay, Greer's work raises similar questions of intentionality versus decay.

Exhibitions

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Solo

2021
Enamel Duckface
Rheum Room, Basel, Switzerland
2020
Orb Weaver of the Garden Variety
Wild Flower Projects, Baltimore, MD
Sleep Ambassador
Sinkhole Project, Baltimore, MD

Group

2022
(upcoming) 2nd Inaugural group show
11 Newel, New York, NY
(upcoming) Corps de Metier
Urbain Checcaroni, French Riviera, France
In With the Old: 5 year P.A.D. Retrospective
SUNY College, Purchase, NY
Bait Ball 02
Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano A Mare, Italy
2021
In With the Old
Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY
Floaters
Collison’s Craft, Gunpowder River, MD
The Gernsback Continuum
Prometheus Projects, Montreal, Canada
Staycation
13 East, New York, NY
2020
We’re Aliens Trying to Understand Paintings of Bison
Ogden, UT
Behind the Times
Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Petri Dish
Project Art Distribution, New York, NY
2019
Time Capsule
Gern en Regalia, New York, NY
Sukkot
New York, NY

Curatorial Projects

2021
Automatic Wag
Mafera Park, NY

Press

2022
In with the Old: P.A.D. 5 Year Retrospective, Nancy Smith
Art Lovers New York Magazine
Bait Ball 02
ArtForum, Monopol Magazine, Daily Lazy, ATP Diary
2021
Floaters
Ofluxo Journal
The Gernsback Continuum
Ofluxo Journal
Automatic Wag
Ofluxo Journal
2020
Sleep Ambassador
TZVETNIK