Amanda Elizabeth Joseph

Amanda Elizabeth Joseph is an artist hailing from Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. There truly is a kind of disgusting beauty and revolting tenderness to Joseph’s paintings…nasty skin infections and herpes-like sores made of glittered sequins and ruby jewels.

Amanda Elizabeth Joseph arrives from Columbus (United States) ready to stir your morning coffee. Women are the protagonists of his oil paintings and appear with the skin in a state of putrefaction, as a metaphor for the imperfections of our interior. The characters of Joseph take their misery to shine through the skin and a sad and cheeky looks, facing the classic 'is not all that glitters gold'. The use of glitter to represent wounds is a criticism of how we hide the harsh reality behind glitter. Surely you have scrolled several times because these photorealistic paintings of Joseph give off a disgusting tenderness worthy of contemplation in a loop.