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Artist Representation by Karole Sessums and the Lola Agency




Joe DeCamillis
 Artwork Inspired by the life of Jack Kerouac
JOE DeCAMILLIS

           BOOK ARTS
              sculpture
              painting
             mixed media


Artist Representation by Karole Sessums and
              the Lola Agency

              601.954.5154
         karole@happygolola.com
Joe DeCamillis – Artist Statement



I studied Literature and Creative Writing at UCLA in the mid 1980's. I was under the impression that my
passion for reading meant I should become a writer. I found only frustration and heartache, so four years
later, I quit school, quit writing, and ended up back in Boulder for my oldest brother’s wedding. In need of a
new outlet for my creative drive, I decided to try my hand at drawing and painting. The rst time I tried oil
painting at the age of 25, I knew I could better tell stories with paint than words. I knew from the rst buttery
smell of the oils. Painting instantly became my passion and within three years, my means of living.

From 1991 to 94, I traversed America from coast to coast and border to border in a vintage RV living on the
road full-time via the art-fair circuit. The sheer volume of paintings necessary to survive living on the circuit
honed my artistic skills in ways that no amount of classes or workshops could have. Also feeding my
ravenous creative hunger were the gaps between fairs that gave me time to haunt museums across the
country and devour the old masters from up close while also consuming the fast-food curiosities of
contemporary art trends.

My process constantly evolved over the next two decades as I challenged myself to explore new media and
means of presentation. In 2004, I pushed the extremes of scale by creating paintings smaller than postage
stamps that retained the precise detail and intense illumination that had become my trademark. A more
dramatic shift began, when I built my rst frames from old books to emphasize the storytelling nature of my
work. It also began the merger of my passions: art, writing, and collecting. The books, altered through
various means, no longer served as just the frame for the paintings, but rather encouraged a dialogue to
unfold between the collage elements of text, imagery, and personal writings.
My own writing and poetic sense continued to creep
into the work more deeply as I experimented with
painting on top of book-page collage and antique
postcards. I also reversed the process of my original
altered book art idea by setting altered books inside of
larger paintings. In 2010, I executed my rst typewriter
sculpture inspired by the way Jack Kerouac wrote his
original manuscript of On the Road using a typewriter
and stack of tracing paper taped together to form a 120
foot scroll.

In 2009 I stitched together my rst quilt from the
stripped covers of hardback books. I had wanted to
create larger works using everything learned with the
miniature paintings/altered book series. My rst
attempts were large collage scrolls with paintings
worked on top of them. After laying out all of the collage
though, I would step back and feel reluctant to mar the
rich paper surface with paint. They looked like big
beautiful abstract paper quilts to me. These pieces,
which I still create today, were the bridge to the the
book-cover quilt.
Dharma Blues—The Kerouac
                          Crazy Quilt kicks off a series that
                          promises to further explore and
                          blur the separation of the literary
                          world and the visual arts, the
                          high art world and the traditions
                          and heritage of American crafts
                          and folk art.




I chose Kerouac's life and writings as the subject for my rst quilt to pay him homage for inspiring my
early creative adventures. I had collected the old hardbacks since 2001 and conceived the idea four
years before I nally mustered the courage to execute it. But once I began stitching in the Spring of 09,
it took just a three-week frenzy of cutting, stitching, and mending to complete—the same time it took
Kerouac to type the original manuscript of On the Road.

I chose the crazy quilt format for its proclivity towards improvisation. Kerouac sought to invent his new kind of
American prose inspired by the spontaneous outbursts of bebop jazz and the free- owing breath of Buddhist
meditation. I utilized a well-worn mover's blanket as the background structure. It has been back and forth across the
country like him, perhaps even more times. None of the covers in the quilt are from Kerouac's books, but they all do
re ect something about his background, his personality, writing style, novels, characters, his generation, or his times.
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Full view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's
blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
Detail view
Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt
5 ft. x 7 ft.
© Joe DeCamillis 2011
Hardback book covers, blue jeans,
mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched
by Joe DeCamillis
In 2010, I executed
  my rst typewriter
sculpture inspired by
the way Jack Kerouac
   wrote his original
 manuscript of On the
     Road using a
 typewriter and stack
   of tracing paper
  taped together to
form a 120 foot scroll.




"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010
          
Found antique typewriter,
collage on canvas (vintage
book pages, road maps, lottery
tickets, and other road-trip
papers, digital snapshots from
road trips)    
Detail -"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010
Detail -"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010
Detail -"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010
Detail -"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010
Detail -"On the Road - Part II"
© Joe DeCamillis 2010

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JoeDeCamillisKerouacPortfolio

  • 1. Artist Representation by Karole Sessums and the Lola Agency Joe DeCamillis Artwork Inspired by the life of Jack Kerouac
  • 2. JOE DeCAMILLIS BOOK ARTS sculpture painting mixed media Artist Representation by Karole Sessums and the Lola Agency 601.954.5154 karole@happygolola.com
  • 3. Joe DeCamillis – Artist Statement I studied Literature and Creative Writing at UCLA in the mid 1980's. I was under the impression that my passion for reading meant I should become a writer. I found only frustration and heartache, so four years later, I quit school, quit writing, and ended up back in Boulder for my oldest brother’s wedding. In need of a new outlet for my creative drive, I decided to try my hand at drawing and painting. The rst time I tried oil painting at the age of 25, I knew I could better tell stories with paint than words. I knew from the rst buttery smell of the oils. Painting instantly became my passion and within three years, my means of living. From 1991 to 94, I traversed America from coast to coast and border to border in a vintage RV living on the road full-time via the art-fair circuit. The sheer volume of paintings necessary to survive living on the circuit honed my artistic skills in ways that no amount of classes or workshops could have. Also feeding my ravenous creative hunger were the gaps between fairs that gave me time to haunt museums across the country and devour the old masters from up close while also consuming the fast-food curiosities of contemporary art trends. My process constantly evolved over the next two decades as I challenged myself to explore new media and means of presentation. In 2004, I pushed the extremes of scale by creating paintings smaller than postage stamps that retained the precise detail and intense illumination that had become my trademark. A more dramatic shift began, when I built my rst frames from old books to emphasize the storytelling nature of my work. It also began the merger of my passions: art, writing, and collecting. The books, altered through various means, no longer served as just the frame for the paintings, but rather encouraged a dialogue to unfold between the collage elements of text, imagery, and personal writings.
  • 4. My own writing and poetic sense continued to creep into the work more deeply as I experimented with painting on top of book-page collage and antique postcards. I also reversed the process of my original altered book art idea by setting altered books inside of larger paintings. In 2010, I executed my rst typewriter sculpture inspired by the way Jack Kerouac wrote his original manuscript of On the Road using a typewriter and stack of tracing paper taped together to form a 120 foot scroll. In 2009 I stitched together my rst quilt from the stripped covers of hardback books. I had wanted to create larger works using everything learned with the miniature paintings/altered book series. My rst attempts were large collage scrolls with paintings worked on top of them. After laying out all of the collage though, I would step back and feel reluctant to mar the rich paper surface with paint. They looked like big beautiful abstract paper quilts to me. These pieces, which I still create today, were the bridge to the the book-cover quilt.
  • 5. Dharma Blues—The Kerouac Crazy Quilt kicks off a series that promises to further explore and blur the separation of the literary world and the visual arts, the high art world and the traditions and heritage of American crafts and folk art. I chose Kerouac's life and writings as the subject for my rst quilt to pay him homage for inspiring my early creative adventures. I had collected the old hardbacks since 2001 and conceived the idea four years before I nally mustered the courage to execute it. But once I began stitching in the Spring of 09, it took just a three-week frenzy of cutting, stitching, and mending to complete—the same time it took Kerouac to type the original manuscript of On the Road. I chose the crazy quilt format for its proclivity towards improvisation. Kerouac sought to invent his new kind of American prose inspired by the spontaneous outbursts of bebop jazz and the free- owing breath of Buddhist meditation. I utilized a well-worn mover's blanket as the background structure. It has been back and forth across the country like him, perhaps even more times. None of the covers in the quilt are from Kerouac's books, but they all do re ect something about his background, his personality, writing style, novels, characters, his generation, or his times.
  • 6. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 7. Full view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 8. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 9. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 10. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 11. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 12. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 13. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 14. Detail view Dharma Blues - The Kerouac Crazy Quilt 5 ft. x 7 ft. © Joe DeCamillis 2011 Hardback book covers, blue jeans, mover's blanket, thread, hand-stitched by Joe DeCamillis
  • 15. In 2010, I executed my rst typewriter sculpture inspired by the way Jack Kerouac wrote his original manuscript of On the Road using a typewriter and stack of tracing paper taped together to form a 120 foot scroll. "On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010            Found antique typewriter, collage on canvas (vintage book pages, road maps, lottery tickets, and other road-trip papers, digital snapshots from road trips)    
  • 16. Detail -"On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010
  • 17. Detail -"On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010
  • 18. Detail -"On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010
  • 19. Detail -"On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010
  • 20. Detail -"On the Road - Part II" © Joe DeCamillis 2010

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