Joey Fauerso

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As an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Joey Fauerso’s subject matter is both personal and political in nature, centered on family, gender, humor, figuration, and representation. Many of her projects utilize humor and performance to subvert and challenge traditions within Western art.

Fauerso is interested in an expanded definition of painting and has developed a unique subtractive painterly process. She applies paint over an entire surface, and then scrapes it off using various kitchen spatulas, clay tools and silkscreen squeegees. These paintings, often made on the ground, present as two-dimensional carvings and indexical records of the textures of the artist’s studio floor.

Her process often consists of making a collection of objects and images that address a loose theme, and then creating meaning through the compositions and relationships built between these objects. Many pieces start with a kind of open-ended uncertainty that affords space for surprise and discovery. The rhythm of this process is ‘fast then slow,’ in which she creates a multitude of quick pieces that avoid the pressures of finality, and then use these collections as material to build a narrative or experience that relies on chance relationships between pieces, or patterns and currents that reveal themselves only when they are examined as a group.

Fauerso's work has recently been exhibited at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Drawing Center in New York, and New Mexico State University Art Museum. She has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso is a Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University, and lives with her family in San Antonio.

Joey Fauerso; Views of North America, 2019; painted wood, canvas, steel; 156 x 288 x 84 inches
Joey Fauerso; After Thoughts, 2019; acrylic on canvas; 72 x 168 inches
Joey Fauerso; The Waiting Room, 2020; acrylic on canvas; 84 x 139 inches
Joey Fauerso; Views of North America II, 2020; acrylic on canvas; 62 x 276 inches
Joey Fauerso; Coda, 2020; unstretched painted canvas, welded steel; five 42 x 42 inche cubes
Joey Fauerso; Coda, 2020; unstretched painted canvas, welded steel; five 42 x 42 inche cubes
Joey Fauerso; "Teardowns" Installation View
Joey Fauerso; "Teardowns" Installation View
Joey Fauerso; "Teardowns" Installation View
Joey Fauerso; Thicket, 2016; acrylic on paper; 22 x 22 in.
Joey Fauerso; Underground, 2016; acrylic on paper; 102 x 131 in.
Joey Fauerso; Traps, 2016; acrylic on paper; 34 x 151 in.
Joey Fauerso; Talk with your Head, 2016; acrylic on paper; 34 x 73 in.
Joey Fauerso; A Good Man is Hard to Find, 2014; watercolor on paper; 16 x 22 in.
Joey Fauerso; Understory, 2014; watercolor on paper; 15 3/4 x 22 in.
Joey Fauerso; Sam with Flowers, 2012; oil on paper; 22 x 30 in.
Joey Fauerso; Selijalandsfoss, 2012; watercolor on paper; 17 x 22 in.
Joey Fauerso; Potomac, 2012; oil on paper; 24 x22 in.
Joey Fauerso; Force Field, 2009; watercolor on paper; 21 x 13 in.
Joey Fauerso; Guadalupe–After Images, 2014; digital prints of oil paintings; 100 x 204 in.
Joey Fauerso; Guadalupe projection still