Joseph Staley

Joseph Staley is a writer, curator, artist, and art historian based in Houston. Formerly the Executive Curator of Glade Glade Gallery in The Woodlands, he curated a multi-faceted yet cohesive range of exhibits, part of which explored LGBT+ culture, and in 2019 he received the Courage Award from The Woodlands Pride Festival for highlighting this theme in a particularly conservative part of the state. His art historical scholarship focuses on the degree to which Pop Art reenacted and perhaps remediated cultural American traumas, but it also pays close attention to the community-building coalitions present in AIDS activist art, particularly of the 1980s and 90s. His curatorial, art historical, and artistic methodology relates specifically to the idea of a double-take: that through theoretical filters, intensive research, nuanced and subtle compositions/subject matters, and frankly, a tinge of brutal honestly, we view a concept, apply those methods, look back at it, and its context is unequivocally altered.
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Enraptured by Ecstasy

Take in Michael Tracey's thought-provoking artwork at Bill Arning Exhibitions through June 27.

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