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M. Joe Exhibition at Aldridge Art Gallery, Toronto Mendelson Joe makes a triumphant return to Toronto after a decade of living amongst the squirrels. Aldridge Art Gallery Beauty is a great healer in this existence as I’ve lived it. Aside from my obsession to paint women, the beauty of sky, water, trees, rocks and wildlife still thrill me; it’s all music to my eyes. I make art to stay sane in what seems like an ever-accelerating crazy world. The more beauty I paint, the saner I get. My buddy Philip says I’m very sane. I exist therefore I art. ––Mendelson Joe © Aldridge Art Gallery |
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Mendelson Joe at the Kitchener Blues Festival Catch a solo performance by Mendelson Joe at the Kitchener Blues Festival on Saturday August 9, 2008. For tickets and information visit: www.kitchenerbluesfestival.com |
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Joe's Politicians in Bookstores Now M. Joe's fourth book, Joe's Politicians, published by ECW Press of Toronto is now in bookstores and displays Joe's take on everyone from Bush to Harper to Kissenger to Mulroney and twenty other icons of democracy. Joe's Politicians features colourful portraits with insightful comments by the artist. |
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April
12, 2006 Portrait Gallery of Canada Purchases Tomson Highway Portrait by Mendelson Joe Karen Robinson Gallery is pleased to announce that The Portrait Gallery of Canada has acquired Mendelson Joe’s painting of multi-media artist Tomson Highway. Mr. Highway, a celebrated playwright, musician and author of children’s books is outspoken on matters pertaining to injustices done to and suffered by First Nations aboriginals. Mendelson Joe, himself a self-taught multi-media artist, rarely paints men except his heroes and/or those males he satirizes as in the case of many of Canada’s politicians. The Highway portrait was exhibited exclusively at Karen Robinson Gallery and was recently published in Joe’s Toronto, Joe’s third book for Toronto publisher ECW Press. Mr. Joe states ”I am privileged to be born in Canada, I exist therefore I art.” |
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| Mr. Joe appeared on the Rick
Mercer Report March 28 , 2006 (Season #3) |
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JOE'S
TORONTO October 25, 2005 marked the launch date of M. Joe's second book of portraits. For close to thirty years, Mendelson Joe has painted portraits of Torontonians known and unknown, including: Robert Fulford, Robert Priest, Irshad Manji, Margaret Atwood, Bernie Finkelstein, Stan the Fan and Babydoll Grandma. His portraits of Torontonians amount to a significant body of work, and, in Joe's Toronto, he exhibits fifty portraits from the experience. It tells both his story and the story of those he portrayed. Along with faithful reproductions of the original paintings, Joe has added his own brand of comments about the subjects and the sessions. To order this book, please see the Joe Products page. |
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WORKING
WOMEN November 2004 brings the release of Joe's new book of portraits of women published by ECW Press. Along with the beautiful colour reproductions of the original paintings are Joe's comments about the sessions and the diversity of occupations that the women represent. To order this book, please see the Joe Products page. |
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This book is a spoken biography that chronicles the life of Joe in a conversational style. ALIEN brings together extensive interviews with the man and the people who know him. Joe tells of touring the world with his blues-rock band Mainline in the early 70s, sharing concert stages with burlesque strippers, and discovering a passion for art after rescuing a set of acrylic paints from a garbage can. To order this book, please see the Joe Products page. |
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THE BEST BLUES ALBUM EVER... Volume II Karen Robinson Gallery is pleased to announce that multi-media artist Mendelson Joe is enjoying a resurgence in his medium of song. EMI Canada has just released The Best Blues Album Ever... Volume II featuring the music of master blues artists Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins amongst many. Mendelson Joe's song Mainline, recorded in 1969 by Canada's most original premier blues-rock group, McKenna Mendelson Mainline, is featured amongst the many. Known as Joe Mendelson back then, Mr. Joe has been a SOCAN affiliate since 1969. Mendelson Joe has written and composed over 250 songs in his five-decade career in music. His latest album, Everyone Needs A Pimp, was completed in 1999. The Best Blues Album Ever... Volume II is available through your favourite music store. |
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ALIEN:
THE STRANGE LIFE AND TIMES OF MENDELSON JOE
