Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Conversation begins at 15:45 (sorry! I prattled on a while about Joe's art!)
For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman (https://joecoleman.com) joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new career-spanning retrospective book, A DOORWAY TO JOE: The Art of Joe Coleman (Fantagraphics, bookshop.org/a/4669/9781683968702). We talk about art, mortality, mythography, history, the corruption of the flesh, the nature of evil, his Odditorium (joecoleman.com/gallery/slideshow/) & the power of relics, Dr. Mombooze-o's (joecoleman.com/painting/momboozeo-1986/) send-off for his dead parents, playing Whac-A-Mole with T-cell lymphoma (joecoleman.com/painting/contemplation-diagnosis-t-cell-lymphoma/), getting arrested for being an Infernal Machine, taxi-driving in NYC's Travis Bickle era, the inspiration of the Hubble telescope, the pagan Celtic roots in Irish Catholicism, what it's like to work on one square-inch of a painting for 8 hours at a time, our respective appearances on the Uncle Floyd Show (joecoleman.com/performance/the-uncle-floyd-show/), playing in the Steel Tips (joecoleman.com/performance/steel-tips/) with Patrick McDonnell (chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-556-patrick-mcdonnell) & Karen O'Connell, and how he found his love and muse in Whitney Ward (joecoleman.com/painting/doorway-whitney/). Follow Joe on Instagram (instagram.com/joecolemanartist/) • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-600-joe-coleman • Support The Virtual Memories Show via patreon.com/vmspod or paypal.me/vmspod and via our e-newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
Conversation begins at 15:45 (sorry! I prattled on a while about Joe's art!)
For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman (https://joecoleman.com) joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new career-spanning retrospective book, A DOORWAY TO JOE: The Art of Joe Coleman (Fantagraphics, bookshop.org/a/4669/9781683968702). We talk about art, mortality, mythography, history, the corruption of the flesh, the nature of evil, his Odditorium (joecoleman.com/gallery/slideshow/) & the power of relics, Dr. Mombooze-o's (joecoleman.com/painting/momboozeo-1986/) send-off for his dead parents, playing Whac-A-Mole with T-cell lymphoma (joecoleman.com/painting/contemplation-diagnosis-t-cell-lymphoma/), getting arrested for being an Infernal Machine, taxi-driving in NYC's Travis Bickle era, the inspiration of the Hubble telescope, the pagan Celtic roots in Irish Catholicism, what it's like to work on one square-inch of a painting for 8 hours at a time, our respective appearances on the Uncle Floyd Show (joecoleman.com/performance/the-uncle-floyd-show/), playing in the Steel Tips (joecoleman.com/performance/steel-tips/) with Patrick McDonnell (chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-556-patrick-mcdonnell) & Karen O'Connell, and how he found his love and muse in Whitney Ward (joecoleman.com/painting/doorway-whitney/). Follow Joe on Instagram (instagram.com/joecolemanartist/) • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-600-joe-coleman • Support The Virtual Memories Show via patreon.com/vmspod or paypal.me/vmspod and via our e-newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
