Leslie-Lohman Gallery | Joseph Raddocia

Joseph Radoccia Born 1960
American, Painter

Born into an Italo-American family in Hornel, New York, Radoccia studied art at the State University of New York at Buffalo earning a BS in graphic design in 1982. He subsequently did a year of undergraduate work at Montana State University , and then returned to Buffalo where he got his MFA in painting in 1985. The artist's work is very much in the narrative tradition of Renaissance painting with a powerful admixture of the erotic spirit of Eastern prints. He is known for producing fully fledged "series" of paintings, richly homoerotic, with titles like Love Game, The Pillow Book, and The Four Seasons. The series called, Within The Mystery Of Shadow is based on his experiences in Madagascar which he first visited in 2001. He lives and works in New York City, New Orleans, and Madagascar .

Danny O'Connell, Joe Radoccia: The Story Teller, The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation vol. 4, iss. 1 (Spring 1998).

	Snagged Nimbus, 1995 Oil on panel 23 x 15" Gift of the artist 1996.7046.0001

	Squeeze, 2003 Oil on panel 8 x 10" Founders' purchase 2003.2047.0005

	The Explusion, 1994 Oil on canvas 16 x 24" Gift of the artist 1998.7046.0001

	The Blue Chair, 2008 Oil on canvas 32 x 20" Founders' gift 2008.107.1

	Islands 7, 2003 Oil on panel 14 x 12" Founders' purchase 2003.2047.0002

Joseph Radoccia Born 1960 American, Painter Born into an Italo-American family in Hornel, New York, Radoccia studied art at the State University of New York at Buffalo earning a BS in graphic design in 1982. He subsequently did a year of undergraduate work at Montana State University , and then returned to Buffalo where he got his MFA in painting in 1985. The artist's work is very much in the narrative tradition of Renaissance painting with a powerful admixture of the erotic spirit of Eastern prints. He is known for producing fully fledged "series" of paintings, richly homoerotic, with titles like Love Game, The Pillow Book, and The Four Seasons. The series called, Within The Mystery Of Shadow is based on his experiences in Madagascar which he first visited in 2001. He lives and works in New York City, New Orleans, and Madagascar . Danny O'Connell, Joe Radoccia: The Story Teller, The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation vol. 4, iss. 1 (Spring 1998).