JOSEPH CAVE: Recent Oils



Opening Reception with the artist Sunday, February 23rd 2:00-5:00 pm First Friday Reception Friday, March 7th 6:00-9:00 pm Seventy-seven year old artist is still seeing the world for the first time. With the fourteen oil paintings in a new solo show at Adam Cave Fine Art in Raleigh, North Carolina landscape painter Joseph Cave reminds us just how different the color, light and mood is from one region to the next. For the past two years the artist has been settling into a new home outside of Asheville, after living more than a decade on the Carolina coast. Cave�s excitement over his new surroundings is palpable in warm, rollicking works full of mountain roads, Piedmont horse farms, one-street towns, and ambling creeks. Cave is no stranger to different environments. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, he has lived in Georgia, California, Germany, Portugal, Tennessee and both Carolinas. His approach to painting still reflects his art education at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s; loose brushwork similar that of the abstract expressionists. But, from the beginning he has found his inspiration in the landscape, particularly that with a human presence. So, whereas his style is very recognizable, in each piece the artist allows the location he is painting to dictate color, tone, and mood. Now in his mid-seventies, Cave�s work can be found in the collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Duke University Medical Center, Capital Broadcasting Corporation, SAS Institute, and many other public and private collections across the country.