Joe Grillo

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Joe Grillo (b. 1980 Meteor City, AZ) is an American visual artist based in Virginia Beach, VA. [1] He was briefly a member of the artist collective Paper Rad, before splintering off to found the artist collective Dearraindrop with siblings Laura Grant and Billy Grant in 2003. [2] [3] [4] [5] His graphic work was published in the underground comics newspaper Paper Rodeo [6] and Kramers Ergot. [7] [8] [9] He has exhibited internationally as a solo artist at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet Museum in Skarhamn, [10] Loyal Gallery in Sweden, [11] and The Hole in New York City. [12]

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His artwork has been described by Roberta Smith of The New York Times as "raucous, densely composed works... crowded with apparent pop-culture figures and motifs that are nearly all invented. Rendered in saturated colors outlined in black, they operate in an area bounded by painting, cartooning, graffiti and perhaps video games... a crazed retinal overload tends to distinguish Mr. Grillo’s works from those of his predecessors." [13]

Music has been an important influence on Grillo, and references to rock bands can be found throughout his work. [14] His art has been featured on Bill Callahan's Woke on a Whaleheart [15] and Awesome Color's self titled debut. [16] His record designs for Dearraindrop's Asid Rain [17] and Flaspar's Quadrupletrouble [18] were featured in Taschen's Art Record Covers Book in 2017 alongside record designs by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Damien Hirst. [19] [20]

Selected work

Music

Books

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  1. ↑ Toomral, Michael (2016). Joe Grillo: Acid American. Trento, Italy: Cellar Contemporary.
  2. ↑ "'An Oasis, a Utopia, and a Nightmare'". Rhizome. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  3. ↑ Cotter, Holland (2003-01-19). "Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  4. ↑ Grayson, Kathy (2015). Joe Grillo: #%@&?!!!. Canada: Anteism.
  5. ↑ "Art People: Dearraindrop's psychedelic swirl". Chicago Reader. 2003-03-20. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  6. ↑ English, Austin (2017-11-20). "Feininger's Grandkids". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  7. ↑ McCulloch, Joe (2012-02-28). "This Week in Comics!". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  8. ↑ Harkham, Sammy (2002). Kramer's Ergot 3. Canada: Avodah Books. ISBN   0967798930.
  9. ↑ Harkham, Sammy (2003). Kramer's Ergot 4. Avodah Books. ISBN   0967798957.
  10. ↑ "Joe Grillo". Nordiska Akvarellmuseet. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  11. ↑ Lilja, Martin. "Loyal, Extrabreit". Loyal Gallery. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  12. ↑ "The Hole NYC » Joe Grillo #%@&?!!!" . Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  13. ↑ Smith, Roberta (2015-11-19). "Joe Grillo and Zane Lewis in Separate Shows at the Hole". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  14. ↑ Gupta, Kavi (2005). Dearraindrop: Magic Brain. Italy: Petra. p. 56. ISBN   8887327114.
  15. ↑ Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart , retrieved 2022-02-20
  16. ↑ Awesome Color - Awesome Color , retrieved 2022-02-20
  17. ↑ Dearraindrop As The Bubblegum Phoenix - Asid Rain , retrieved 2022-02-20
  18. ↑ Flaspar - Quadrupletrouble , retrieved 2022-02-20
  19. ↑ Cellar. "Joe Grillo on Art Record Covers By Taschen". www.cellarcontemporary.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  20. ↑ Spampinato, Francesco (2017). Art Record Covers. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN   978-3836540292.
  21. ↑ "Dearraindrop As The Bubblegum Phoenix* – Asid Rain". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
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