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Joe Hamilton Biography:
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Age
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47
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
3
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Undergraduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
mountain climbing, movie making, construction projects |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
not provided
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Byzantine - (330 - 1453)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Da Vinci
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| Favorite Work of Art |
mona lisa
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The natural world, rocks, trees, mountains,rivers.
I've travelled extensivley in the U.S., and Britain and the neolithic images of England as well as the british sculptors who work site specific projects have always played a big part in my work |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
At an early age I was exposed to many natural land forms durring extensive vacations that brought me to nearly every U.S. national park. I hiked, climbed, and camped and a great appreciation for nature and it's endless beauty carved out a place in my memory that I've been trying to duplicate with my art ever since |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I grew up on the east coast, elementary school in New Jersey, junior high in Rhode Island, and high school in Pennsylvania. I won a competition in 9th grade from Art Instruction Schools of Minneapolis, and studied for four years the elements for a commercial art career. Durring this period I entered and won local art events and a state wide poster contest my senior year. My high school art teacher Dave Ludwick, treated me as a professional and we spent 4 years together as master and apprentice. Dave was a well known painter and eventually became director of the Hoyt institute of art .I spent the next 12 years enrolled in various art programs full time to learn from other masters and have the use of the studios. At first I went to Edinborough University, then Portland School of art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts " Boston " and finally I found myself working with a British sculptor at the Royal Academy in London where we spent a summer working at the Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park in southhampton. I worked with Angeline King for " the new milestone project" ,an organization dedicated in preserving ancient sites in England by commerating the sites with new works of art placed in the landscape for that pupose. I created a limestone piece that they used as an example to show the communities what could be done. I was so enthralled with the time I spent with Ken Gray my british friend that I moved to Alaska from Boston where he was head of the art department at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. Once arriving I met my wife. bought a house and started a family. That was almost 20 years ago. Our sons are nearly grown and I've been a commercial artist supporting the family with almost every artitic endeavor imaginable. My portfolio consists of a vast array of techniques, proceedures, and processes. In 1992 I was asked to produce a set for a film, and I've been building sets, props, special effects and sculpture for feature films, national commercials, documentaries, and television productions ever since. Large scale art projects have always held my interest. In the local market club design, restaurants, and hair salons design have kept me busy between production gigs. When I have the time I produce sculpture for the fine art gallery market and private collecters. The technique that I most want to explore is one I developed for a commercial client, that uses the cut off slabs from the lumber industry. I take these by products and creat wall size wood murals of outdoor scenes, that are stained in any number of colors then attached to outdoor locations. The technique is fast and impressive when installed in overlapping panels that show no seams. I've used the same process to create doors, and trees made of trees. The possibilities of images that can be created are endless and I'm not buying new materials to make them. I use only scrap wood and discarded materials. I have my own film projects in the works, and enjoy the challange of any project that comes my way |
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