Joseph Radoccia’s paintings have meandered from medium to medium but have always reflected his fascination with forms of intimacy and continue to do so with his large portraits on paper.

His early art in Buffalo NY was allegoric assemblages exploring the labyrinth of courtship. In the mid-80s living in Brooklyn NY his painting was darkened by the shadow of the AIDS epidemic as it moved into narrative oil paintings navigating sexual identity, love, fear and betrayal. Several of these are included in the Leslie Lohman Museum’s permanent and study collections.

Eventually, he sought to free his work from personal and political-driven themes so Radoccia abandoned the narrative to engage in an extended period of passive observational painting. Learning from looking listening and simply painting objects from life and his travels in Madagascar.

In 2011 he left Brooklyn, heading north up the Hudson river to Beacon, NY where as his practice matured his looking moved from objects to people, and drawing oversized intricate portraiture, faces as maps of experience.

In 2020 Joseph Radoccia was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in the category of Drawing.

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