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COLLECTORS' ITEM!
Mendelson Joe Born To Cuddle vinyl LP,
featuring The Shuffle Demons (1988).

Ten original songs on good old vinyl, brand new and still in the wrapper.
Less than 15 available.

Women are the Only Hope (2012)

The first of four unreleased albums produced by Mendelson Joe since 1991. Release date is February 14, 2012.

Spoiled Bratland (2010)

Eclectic, multi-media artist Mendelson Joe follows up his historic LIVE AT SIXTY-FIVE solo CD with his visionary, and most accessible toe-tapper Spoiled Bratland. Spoiled Bratland is the work of a visionary. It's a landmark of love and passion for truth: many truths. Timing is everything. Behold the renaissance of Canada's resident existentialist and self-taught minstrel.

Live At Sixty-Five (2009)

What M. Joe says about his new CD: "The songs embodied herein are a tiny snippet of my story from the early 1970s to the present. Imre de Jonge recorded me Live at The Barn, Huntsville, Ontario in September 2009. Torontonian Michael Damico souped up the sounds, sequenced, mastered and co-produced the packaging. I made the paintings, took the photos, wrote the writings, designed the package and produced this recording for OLD BOLD RECORDS."

Humans Bug Me (1999)

A 1999 limited edition release of 12 original Joe songs. © Mendelson Joe.

Everyone Needs a Pimp (1999)

A 1999 limited edition release of 10 original Joe songs. © Mendelson Joe.

Postcards (4in. x 6in.)

A mix of 24 full-colour postcards. Includes landscapes, portraits, social commentary and nudes.

Signed Reproductions (12in. x 17in.)

Popular demand has spurred us to introduce this exciting line-up of affordable, signed open-edition reproductions. Eleven of Mendelson Joe's most popular images are now available.

The images are 10" x 15" in size and printed on 12" x 17" high-quality art paper, using archival-quality inks. Each image is hand-signed by Mendelson Joe.

Price: $225.00 CDN plus HST (13%) and shipping.

Home		No Exaggeration		Glowing Greenery
Three Bunny Teepee		Two Nights in a Row		Woodpile
Hoar Frost		Bobbi's Studio		December Here
America Votes				September Simple

Joe's Politicians
by Mendelson Joe
published by ECW Press of Toronto.

Joe's politicians is a series of portraits by Mendelson Joe that parallels a highly charged exhibition from the spring of 2008 at the Art Gallery of Peterborough (AGP).

"In Mendelson Joe's metamorphic political portraits, eyes redden like the eyes of serpents. Teeth yellow. Tufts of hair are tweaked into devil-horns (Harper, Eves and Condoleeza Rice). And, most disturbingly, people turn into buttock-people, into perambulating assholes. Jean Chrétian now talks out of the side of his anus..."
- Gary Michael Dault, "Mendelson Joe: The Political Portraits

Published by ECW Press, October 2008, 57 pages, 6" x 9", 19 colour photos of M.Joe paintings. ISBN 978-1-55022-821-2

Alien: The Strange Life And Times Of Mendelson Joe
by Mendelson Joe as told to Nadia Halim,
published by ECW Press of Toronto.

He believes that speaking out can make a difference, that women are the only hope for the future, and that there's truth in a good blues song. He doesn't believe in God, compromise or schmaltz.

Alien brings together some of the best of Joe's artwork, along with extensive interviews with the man and the people who know him. Joe holds forth on the things that fascinate him: the female body, motorcycles, rabbits, nature, art and music. He 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. Published by ECW Press, October 2000, 160 pages, 6" x 9", 16 colour photos of M.Joe paintings, 20 black and white photos. ISBN 1-55022-426-23

Working Women: Portraits by Mendelson Joe

"[Mendelson Joe] paints with more emotion than almost any other painter in the country. It comes through blazingly in the colours of his 'Working Women' series." Peter Goddard, Toronto Star

In the words of Mendelson Joe: "My purpose in my work, any of it, from song to essay to picture, is to tell the truth and it seems that most truth ain't couth. Inequality bugs me. Prejudice bugs me. And, I've long believed that women are the only hope for this ever-degrading organism that mothered us all. So, in 1982, I began to paint portraits of women. The purpose was to document women in the context of their job descriptions, so the pictures showed them as working folks as opposed to sexual objects."

Along with faithful reproductions of the original paintings, Joe has added his own brand of particular comments about the subject and the sessions.

Published by ECW Press, November 2004, 102 pages, 6.25" x 9.25", 50 full-colour reproductions. ISBN 1-55022-671-1

Joe's Toronto: Portraiture by Mendelson Joe

When Joe fell into painting and loved it like music, it was inevitable that he would document his friends, colleagues, neighbours and others. For years, he painted portraits of Torontonians known and unknown, including: Robert Fulford, Robert Priest, Irshad Manji, Margaret Atwood, Bernie Finkelstein, Stan the Fan and Babydoll Grandma.

Over thirty years later, his portraits of Torontonians amount to a significant body of work, and here 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.

Published by ECW Press, October 2005, 102 pages, 6.25" x 9.25", 50 full-colour reproductions. ISBN 1-55022-715-7