Spotlight Artist

Joe DeVera

MFA Annual
Artist profile photo
Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

My works are, in part, documentation of human tragedy, informed by my interest in history, historiography, and parallels in my personal past. They are veiled speculations, militaristic and mythical—pictorial preambles that explore the viability of a return to narrative in the wake of postmodernism, the atomic age, and the ever-expanding digital realm. My current process takes from photographs, satellite imagery, and video stills, and forcibly feeds them back into my paintings and installations to take that which has been distilled by historical method and reformulate it into a new apocrypha.

Artist's Additional works

Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections

Featured artwork
Featured artwork

Discover more artists from the MFA Annual

THE MAGAZINE

Explore our magazine to discover exceptional artists

Open magazine with text, modern illustrations, and a list of artists on a pink background.
View issues

Call for Artists

Submit your work for consideration

New American Paintings is a juried exhibition-in-print and digital, presenting the work of 40 emerging artists in each issue.

View competitions

Your gateway to new art

Discover tomorrow's art stars, today

Two books on a wooden table with a modern decorative sculpture in the background.

PRINT + EARLY ACCESS DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION

$179/YEAR

DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION

$99/YEAR OR $10/MONTH

Each issue of New American Paintings features forty artists selected through our juried competitions—presented in a beautifully curated, full-color publication. Subscribers receive six issues per year, plus exclusive online access to current and past editions. Are you a collector? Consider our premium subscription and receive our museum-quality printed publication + access to each new digital issue two weeks before its general release.