Joe Barron Is a professional artist who has been working his craft in Chicago, New York and Sarasota since graduating with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in1988. He has won international awards and recognition, exhibited in museums and gallery spaces and has created designs for textile, fashion and Interior design clients including Ralph Lauren Polo, Hickey Freeman, Robb& Stucky and many others. He has worked at creative visual merchandising projects for Structure Stores and French Connection. He also assisted monthly show installations and coordination of events at Kathryn Sermas Gallery, New York.
Joe currently lives in Osprey, Florida where he creates unique murals, fine art and decorative designs and wall finishes for a variety of clientele including commercial projects as well as the homes of private clients in Southwest Florida's most exclusive residences. His Mural in The Garden Room at The Sarasota University Club was recommended as an Editor's Choice in Sarasota Magazine's Best of the Best issue in May 2004. His work has been seen in the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Venice Gondier. His Madagaskar themed mural was featured in the cover article in the Magazine Housetrends-Greater Sarasota Winter 2006 issue.
AWARDS
•Awarded New York City studio space for one year by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation.
•Grumbacher Award in Painting in Juror John Caldwell, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
•Awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant .
SELECTED EXHlBlTlONS AND SHOWCASES
•Ritz Carlton Tower Residences Sales Model, Ceiling Murals and wall finishes and Decorative Art. Susan Dabney, ASID Designer. Year 2004.
•Sarasota University Club, Mural on all walls of The Garden Room. Alan Watkins, ASID and George Allison, ASID Designers. Year 2004.
•1999-2004 Numerous residential Mural, Faux Finish and Decorative Art projects.
•1999 ASID Designer Showcase at The Taylor House, Sarasota, Presented by by The Florida West Coast Symphony Association. Painted art on plaque pediments and faux finished over grass cloth wallpaper. Melinda Voigt andTreanne Michel, ASlD Designers, Robb & Stucky.
•1998 ASID Designer Showcase at lcard House at Hawks Harbor, Sarasota, Stairwell tropical mural and sitting Room aviary theme art.
•Sarasota County Arts Council, Sarasota, Florida, Solo Exhibition, "Joseph Barron", 1998
•Sarasota Visual Arts Center,Sarasota Florida,"Hot Summer Cool Art", August 1997.
•Gulf Gate Mall, Sarasota, Florida. "Art in Motion", an ARTarget exhibition at vacated mall
site. 1997.
•Five Points, Sarasota, Florida, "Arts Day"", January 1996 & 1997.
•The Century, Miami Beach in association with Griffin Gallery, Miami, January 1995.
•Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama. "Chiaroscuro: A Contemporary Study of Light and Dark, 1994 Montgomery Biennial", curated by Jane Kessler, Curator's Forum, September- October, 1994.
•Triplex Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New
York, "Courtship: Unity and Diversity", July -September, 1994. Curated by Linda Stein
and Christine Scott.
•Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program, "Open Studios", December 1993 and April 1994.
•Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, "Corporeal Identities", 1993.
•Hispano 20 and Cartoon Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, "New Yorkers in Spain", Sponsored by Banco Hispano Americano, 1990.
•The Museum of Contemporary Art Store, Chicago, " 6th Annual Shirts by Artists
Exhibition", 1989.
•Laguna Gloria Museum and Tour, Orig., Austin, Texas. "Texas Fine Art Association, New American Talent 1989".• Juror, John Caldwell, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, 1989-93, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
EDUCATlON
The School of the Art institute of Chicago, MFA and BFA. Completed semester toward MFA at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.