FADER: Get To Know Joe Garvey, The Brooklyn Artist Reinventing Your Favorite Iconography
NOVEMBER 7TH 2016
“33-year-old artist Joe Garvey makes art that you can feel. When we spoke on the phone in October, he was at his Williamsburg studio where he creates texture-filled mixed media works out of materials like cinder blocks, sand, and reflective scrap metal. Garvey’s work is imbued with a nostalgic energy that thrusts you back in time via the subtlest of details. In our conversation, he described how he looks to connect the objects he encounters in the outside world — like road signs, discarded sporting equipment, and construction items — to his own memories, looking for a connective, nostalgic, thread that viewers can collectively share. “It’s sort of like ready-made Earth art, if you wanted to call it something,” he tells me.”
