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New Albany, IN 47150
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Good Gravy
Featuring Joe Wolek
Facebook: /joewolek Instagram: @joewolek
Dates: September 27 – November 8, 2025
Events: Opening Reception, September 27, 3pm -7pm
Artist Talk October 25, 2pm
Joe Wolek calls his photographic work “conceptual landscape”. He follows the strict tradition of documentary photography with a neutral view allowing for subtle and introspective interpretation. He shuns direct depiction of the human element to rather center the content on aspects in the landscape that connotes culture’s overwhelming presence in absurd ways.
The images in this exhibition are from many travels around the globe, highlighting one excursion to Appalachia that directed the move back to his home state of Kentucky. They highlight his love of irony and strange juxtaposition of elements in a scene that creates humorous metaphors with biting satire and critical punches.