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Joe Sweeney As I have worked over the years, I realize that themes running through my work are: finding a sense of place, the figure in landscape, man's relationship with nature, and the effect that building has on the balance between nature and man. I have used landscape as a metaphor for my own search for balance. My geographic range has expanded over time from the farmland of central Pennsylvania, to the shores of the Delaware River Valley, to the harbor at New York, and as far west as Bozeman, Montana.
What I want my work to convey is an in-depth personal exploration of the land, and my relationship to it. The work is simple and direct but still retains a certain sense of mystery that is inherent in all living things. By exploring my relationship as an individual to the natural world, I am looking for the answers to such questions as: How do I interact with the world around me, what can I learn from it, what are my responsibilities to it as caretaker and where do I fit in? The answers to these questions are out there, what we need to do is to learn to see them.
"There is nothing so impenetrable as the deceptive cloak of simplicity."
Joseph Sweeney graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts). He has a Masters Degree from Penn State University, Art & Architecture.
He has been awarded Best of Show at 'Images '98' Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and Best of Show for The Philadelphia Water Color Club International Exhibition of Works on Paper.
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