Joseph Barbieri
Joseph Barbieri is best known for his intricately detailed, color saturated and irreverent portraits of anthropomorphic creatures. His second stream of paintings is delicate, lyrical landscapes.
His creatures are engaged in leisurely pursuits: painting plein air, flying antique planes, dressing for dinner, lolling by the pool. While they superficially appear to resemble us, they're far more unwittingly absorbed into their own peculiar world than we are.
The landscapes, done in Italy, Antigua, and Maine, are soft and muted and are suffused with the warm air and sun of their settings. Barbieri spends most of his vacation painting en plein air.
Barbieri trained at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His paintings have been exhibited at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
There Must Be Hundreds of Them!, 2022, oil on canvas, 16x12"> Inquire Twombly Wannabe, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x13"> Inquire Jim Paddles Away, 2022, oil on canvas, 5.75x16"> Inquire Cookhouse Roof, McGee Island, 2022, oil on canvas, 12x16"> Inquire 2 Artists, 2022, oil on canvas, 6x10"> Inquire Election 24, 2023, oil on canvas, 11x9"> Inquire What Was That?, 2022, oil on canvas, 10x10"> Inquire Alka Seltzer, 2022, oil on canvas, 16x16"> Inquire Falling Trees, Barter Island, 2023, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Alarmed America, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x6"> Inquire How Did This Happen!, 2022, oil on canvas, 9x8"> Inquire Curonian Air Force, 2022, oil on canvas, 8x20"> Inquire Studio in the Woods, 2022, oil on canvas, 11x5.5"> Inquire The Past, 2022, oil on canvas, 8x8"> Inquire Cry of the Wild, 2022, oil on canvas, 15x2.5"> Inquire South From Solider's Cay, 2023, oil on canvas, 8x15"> Inquire Squadron Alert, 2023, oil on canvas, 6x12"> Inquire Mini-Dog, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x10"> Inquire Rye, 2021, oil on canvas, 9x10" Sold> Inquire Visual Flight Rules, 2023, oil on canvas, 9x10"> Inquire Pirate's Lair, Bahamas, 2022, oil on canvas, 6.25x15"> Inquire Looking East From Antigua, 2022, oil on canvas, 6x12" Sold> Inquire Icarus, 2022, oil on canvas, 8x9"> Inquire Happy As Larry, 2022, oil on panel, 7x5x1.5"> Inquire Yum Yum, 2021, oil on canvas, 20x5"> Inquire Museum Director, 2022, oil on canvas, 16x9"> Inquire Echo Papa Kilo, 2022, oil on canvas, 8x18"> Inquire Bliss, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x16"> Inquire A Florentine, 2022, oil on canvas, 25x11"> Inquire Social Climber, 2023, oil on canvas, 30x8" Sold> Inquire Nocturne, 2023, oil on canvas, 17x9"> Inquire Astronomer, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x17"> Inquire Wading Birds Waiting, 2020, oil on canvas, 13x8" Sold> Inquire Morning on Barter Island, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 16x11"> Inquire January 20, 2021, 2020, oil on canvas, 36x28"> Inquire High Tide, Barter Island, ME, 2021, oil on canvas, 9x14"> Inquire Voyeur, 2020, oil on paper on panel, 6x3" Sold> Inquire San Casciano dei Bagni, 2019, oil on canvas, 8x8" Sold> Inquire Early Morning, Pienza, 2015, oil on canvas, 10x9" Sold> Inquire Cypresses Near Pienza, 2017, oil on canvas, 19x8"> Inquire La Flamme, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x12"> Inquire Cantabrigian, 2018, oil on panel, 14x8"> Inquire Dawn, 2020, oil on canvas, 5.5x15"> Inquire The Spanish Singer, 2021, oil on canvas, 10x9" Sold> Inquire Post Impressionist, 2019, oil on canvas, 9x10"> Inquire The Painter's Prayer, 2020, oil on canvas, 13x20"> Inquire An Island Friend, 2019, oil on canvas, 46x14"> Inquire The Cambridge Tennis Club, 2021, oil on canvas, 18x8"> Inquire Survivors, 2020, oil on canvas on panel, 9x5"> Inquire Sunday Afternoon, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x13"> Inquire Portrait of Maurizio Cattelan, 2021, oil on canvas, 10x9" Sold> Inquire The Painter's Prayer, Variation, 2020, oil on canvas, 11x8" Sold> Inquire Dessert, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x10"> Inquire Spring in Italy, 2020, oil on canvas, 9x8"> Inquire Narcissis, 2021, oil on canvas, 10x13" Sold> Inquire McGee Island Spruce, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 21x11"> Inquire Evening Song, 2020, oil on canvas, 21x9"> Inquire Passport Photo, 2019, oil on canvas, 15x13" Sold> Inquire A Vegan, 2020, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Hupper Island From McGee, 2019, oil on canvas, 9x11"> Inquire South From Sheep Island, Maine, 2019, oil on canvas, 8x28"> Inquire Tondo, 2019, oil on canvas on panel, 7" diameter Sold> Inquire Octogenarian, 2019, oil on canvas, 32x12" Sold> Inquire Birches, 2020, oil on canvas, 19x11" Sold> Inquire Brattle Street, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x14"> Inquire A Philosopher, 2020, oil on canvas, 10x9"> Inquire Contented, 2019, oil on canvas, 8x9"> Inquire The One-Hoss Shay, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x11"> Inquire April 19th, 1941, 2021, oil on canvas, 8x23"> Inquire Antigua, 2018, oil on canvas, 13x5" Sold> Inquire Sheep Island Elegy, 2019, oil on canvas, 9x10"> Inquire No Fool Like an Old Fool, 2020, oil on canvas, 11x8"> Inquire Mermaid, 2019, oil on canvas, 5.75x22"> Inquire Gnothi Seauton (Know Thyself), 2019, oil on canvas, 14x12"> Inquire Maine Idyll, 2019, oil on canvas on panel, 14x9"> Inquire Atlas, 2020, oil on canvas, 11x9"> Inquire Noi, 2018, oil on canvas, 6x19" Sold> Inquire Summer, Sheep Island, 2018, oil on panel, 20x5" Sold> Inquire Antigua, 2020, oil on canvas, 8x11"> Inquire Waikiki, 2019, oil on canvas, 8x12"> Inquire Good Dog!, 2019, oil on canvas, 20x18"> Inquire Sir Walter Raleigh (Aromatic), 2019, oil on canvas, 9x8"> Inquire Five Easy Pieces: I, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Five Easy Pieces: II, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Five Easy Pieces: III, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Five Easy Pieces: IV, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Five Easy Pieces: V, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Paddle-To-The-Cove, 2017, oil on canvas, 7x22" Sold> Inquire Morning Fog, Maine, 2018, oil on canvas, 5x14"> Inquire Large Puffin at Home, Muscongus Bay, 2018, oil on canvas, 8x12"> Inquire Emigrant, 2017, oil on canvas, 16x22"> Inquire Scarce and Rare, 2018, oil on canvas, 72x20"> Inquire Early Morning, 2018, oil on canvas, 15x10"> Inquire CIA, 2017, oil on canvas, 12x13" Sold> Inquire Near La Foce, 2016, oil on canvas, 8x11"> Inquire Halcyon Days in Maine, 2018, oil on canvas, 16x6" Sold> Inquire Sunny Morning, Maine, 2018, oil on canvas, 5x16"> Inquire Master and Commander, 2018, oil on canvas, 9x18"> Inquire Starboard Tack Past Thompson’s Island, 2018, oil on canvas, 22x17"> Inquire April in Tuscany, 2017, oil on canvas, 6x12"> Inquire Jibe Ho!, 2016, oil on canvas, 8x13"> Inquire Island Sauna, Maine, 2018, oil on canvas, 13x15" Sold> Inquire Ophthalmologist, 2016, oil on canvas, 14x8" Sold> Inquire Nocturne, 2017, oil on canvas, 13x5"> Inquire Isaak, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x13"> Inquire Thirty-seven Typical Fishes of Antiqua and Barbuda, 2017, oil on canvas, 18x8" Sold> Inquire Tuesday, November 3rd 2020, 2017, oil on copper, 7x5" Sold> Inquire Primavera, 2018, oil on canvas, 12x15"> Inquire The Gilded Age, 2017, oil on canvas, 13x9"> Inquire Higgs Boson, 2017, oil on canvas, 10x8"> Inquire Ledges Mid-tide, 2016, oil on canvas on panel, 5x13.5"> Inquire What Does It All Mean?, 2016, oil on canvas, 9x16"> Inquire Great Greenish Heron, 2016, oil on canvas, 56x16" Sold> Inquire In the Bahamas, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x8"> Inquire An Island Friend, 2016, oil on canvas, 46x14"> Inquire A Life Worth Living, 2015, oil on canvas, 18x16" Sold> Inquire Bismarckia Nobilis, Antigua, 2015, oil on canvas, 19x10"> Inquire First Time in Maine, 2016, oil on canvas, 26x11" Sold> Inquire Singing the Song Electric, 2016, oil on aluminum on panel, 15x20"> Inquire Snack, 2015, oil on canvas, 11x8" Sold> Inquire Shag Ledges, Islands, 2015, oil on canvas, 8x17"> Inquire Stevenson's Plumed Birchbird, 2016, oil on canvas, 19x11"> Inquire Trio from the Abducktion of Lady Gaga, 2016, oil on canvas, 6x6" Sold> Inquire Well-bred, 2015, oil on canvas, 13x9" Sold> Inquire Amiata, Fog, 2013, oil on linen, 8x22"> Inquire Guillaume, 2016, oil on canvas, 32x24"> Inquire Please Sir?, 2015, oil on canvas, 11x7"> Inquire In Old Havana, 2014, oil on canvas, 10x14"> Inquire Love Letter, 2015, oil on canvas, 10x13" Sold> Inquire Moment of Truth?, 2015, oil on canvas, 14x10"> Inquire OMG!, 2015, oil on canvas, 14x16"> Inquire Great Blue Heron, McGee Island, 2016, oil on canvas, 18x24"> Inquire Muscongus Bay 2075, 2014, oil on canvas, 7x19"> Inquire Near Sant' Antimo, 2016, oil on canvas, 9x19"> Inquire Duomo, Pienza, 2015, oil on canvas, 15x13" Sold> Inquire Eastern Green Snake, Barter Island, 2016, oil on canvas, 17x8"> Inquire Debating Society, 2015, oil on canvas, 8x20"> Inquire At Home, 2016, oil on canvas on panel, 18.5x11"> Inquire Cortona from the East, 2015, oil on canvas, 6x14"> Inquire Board of Directors, 2015, oil on canvas, 7x16" Sold> Inquire Cemetery, La Foce, 2016, oil on canvas, 26x8"> Inquire "You Think This is Easy?", 2006, oil on canvas, 16x12"> Inquire Col Tempo, 2012, oil on canvas, 13x9.5"> Inquire East from Urbino, 2014, oil on canvas, 9x12"> Inquire La Gola del Furlo, near Urbino, 2012, oil on canvas, 17x10"> Inquire U.K., 2012, oil on canvas, 38x36"> Inquire Birds Do It, 2012, oil on canvas, 18x15" Sold> Inquire Four-in-hand, 2011, oil on canvas, 15x8" Sold> Inquire Cautious, 2012, oil on canvas, 18x10"> Inquire Way Down South, 2012, oil on canvas, sand, 17x8"> Inquire Plowed Fields, near Urbino, 2014, oil on canvas, 9x17"> Inquire Oxymoron, 2011, oil on canvas, 9x18"> Inquire Numinous, 2013, oil on canvas, 10x9" Sold> Inquire Dove Sono, 2013, oil on canvas, 15x5"> Inquire Cortona from the North, 2014, oil on canvas, 6x15"> Inquire Bird Dog, 2013, oil on canvas, 5x10"> Inquire At the White Cube Gallery, 2007, oil on canvas, 6x8" Sold> Inquire
Joseph Barbieri
Joseph Barbieri is best known for his intricately detailed, color saturated and irreverent portraits of anthropomorphic creatures. His second stream of paintings is delicate, lyrical landscapes.
His creatures are engaged in leisurely pursuits: painting plein air, flying antique planes, dressing for dinner, lolling by the pool. While they superficially appear to resemble us, they're far more unwittingly absorbed into their own peculiar world than we are.
The landscapes, done in Italy, Antigua, and Maine, are soft and muted and are suffused with the warm air and sun of their settings. Barbieri spends most of his vacation painting en plein air.
Barbieri trained at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His paintings have been exhibited at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.