Background Information as artist
Joseph Stella is
a lifelong New Yorker, having attended Poly Prep Country Day School in
Brooklyn, and later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives
and works in New York City, and Bridgehampton, Long Island.
At MIT he majored in
architecture, and took a number of courses in visual arts under
Professor Gyorgy Kepes. His original design for a mobile theater was
selected to be exhibited and published in Europe, and his sculptured
relief, "Spacial Complements" appeared in the book, EDUCATION OF
VISION by Gyorgy Kepes.
For many years, he
worked in the New York area as architect, artist and teacher, serving on the
faculties of Pratt Institute, the
New York School of Interior Design, the
Fashion Institute of Technology and New York City Technical College.
Unique
creative solutions to architectural design problems in landmark areas of New
York City have been recognized and
published in the New York Times, the
AIA Guide to New York Architecture, New York 2000 by Robert
Stern, and numerous
other publications. During the past three years, the
Society of American Registered Architects has awarded Mr. Stella four
awards for
architectural design and one for landscape design.
From
childhood, Mr. Stella has been productive in all areas of the visual arts. He
has exhibited his drawings, paintings and
sculptures at the Echeverria Gallery
in Moorestown, NJ, and at the Ligoa Duncan Gallery in New York City where he was
favorably reviewed in Art News and France-Amerique. He has shown at the Elaine
Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, Long
Island, the Everhart Gallery in Basking
Ridge, NJ, and at the Wainscott Gallery in Wainscott, Long Island.
Fibonaccian Variations 1
13" x 21" X 4"
Collection of Jo Sullivan Loesser
In
2001, his painted wood relief, Syncopated Man, received an honorable mention
in
the Artists Members Exhibition at Guild Hall in East Hampton, Long
Island, and
Syncopated Man
18" X 18" X 2"
Honorable Mention
East Hampton Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibit 2001
in 2003 the Society of American Registered Architects recognized his Fibonaccian
Variations I with a special design award. Mr. Stella's work is
represented in the
collection’s of Broadway's Jo Sullivan-Loesser, and the
Everhart Gallery in Basking
Ridge, NJ. In
recent years he has undergone a creative surge, working almost
exclusively on
his relief sculptures, the work continuing to explore new and original
directions in form, space and materials.
An overview of Joseph
Stella's creative
output over the years shows a startling consistency and
continuity of direction in his
work, whether in architecture, landscapes,
drawings, paintings or his present
concentration, painted relief sculpture.
