Joe DeVera
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.