Joseph Maresca references the pioneers of modernist architecture when it comes to representing extreme clarity and simplicity in art and design. As a student of Industrial Design in his formative years, Maresca has long admired the aesthetics associated with the Dutch Neoplasticism movement started in the Netherlands in the early 20th century. The defining characteristics of this period, such as a limited palette and strict use of straight horizontal and vertical lines, are central to Maresca’s approach. This exhibit presents a series of small paintings of iconic buildings with titles like Mies, Corbusier and Breur, named after the architects themselves. Painted in black, white, and primary colors, Maresca embraces the minimal framework of structural order balanced against unobstructed, free flowing space. Joseph Maresca was born in Brooklyn, NY and received his BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Painting from NYU. He currently lives in Rhinecliff, NY and has been showing with Carrie Haddad since the early 2000s. Artist Statement My paintings originate from my love of architecture and modernism.Many of the structures I admire speak to abstraction and reduction; this was the starting point when I began the series. Over the past few years, I have grown this idea to its most logical end: the painting, aside from its nod to the original models, has moved to a complete abstraction based on the geometry inherent to the building.Along with this development, I have pushed the work to where the paintings can express my love for the painterly surface, expressing the visibility of the paint medium across the picture plane. This is evident in my monotypes and in the larger oils, where the paint is applied in a tactile manner. My hand is always evident, which adds a richness to what would otherwise be a play of pure color and shape in concert with the evocative memory of structures. The process itself becomes visible – an integral part of this body of work. Born Brooklyn, NY 1946Education BFA Pratt Institute, New York, NYMFA NYU, New York, NYSolo Exhibitions2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2006 Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA2004 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA2002 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY1992 Zimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TNOK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI1991 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NYZimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TNOK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI1990 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY1987 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY1986 Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY1985 Harm Bouckeart Gallery, New York, NY1984 Harm Bouckeart Gallery, New York, NY1982 Soho Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY1981 New York University, New York, NYSelected Group Shows 2024 The Summer Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2021 Fragments of Time and Space, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2016 Winter Exhibit, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2015 “Oil”, Atwater Art Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY2013 Atwater Art Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY2012 Sculpture, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2006 Group Show, Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA2005 Group Show, Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA1992 Invitational Group Show, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY1991 “Holiday Show", Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY1990-93 "Tool As Art", Selections from the Heckinger Collection, a traveling show sponsored by The National Gallery, Washington DC1990 “Horizons", The Museum of Modern Art at Pfiser, Inc."The Technological Muse", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalogue)"Radiant Fruit", Trabia Gallery, New York, NY"Objects on the Edge", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY“Group Show”, Members Gallery at Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY"24 x24", Ruth Seigel Gallery, New York, NY 1989"Romanticism Revisited", Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY"Mermaids at the San Francisco International Airport", traveled to MiamiInternational Airport, sponsored by Suntrust Bank"Florida Invitational ", OK Harris South Gallery, Miami, FL"Wish You were Here", Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY1988 "Arf Art", Trabia Gallery, New York, NY"Sense of Place”, Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY1987 "24 x24", Ruth Seigel Gallery, New York, NY"Objects", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY1986 "24 x24", Ruth Seigel Gallery, New York, NY1985 "Corporate Lobby Show ", Mokatoff Gallery1984 "New Acquisitions", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Teaching ExperienceAdjunct professor York College, City University, New York, NYAdjunct professor New York University, New York, NY