A SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY
A life of Creativity, Work, Study and Collecting
Joseph L. Kagle, Jr.
Part III ( 1980 - 1989 ) : Building a Body of Work
1980 Joe Kagle

"I am only in competition with that person I know I can become!"
Martha Graham

"The reason that I travel is that at times I meet myself coming around the other side of the world."
a priest friend in Taiwan

"First, you shoot the arrows; then you paint the targets."
a comment from a classmate at University of Colorado

"The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in."
Dylan Thomas, Creative Manifesto, Winter, 1961

1980 Anne Sleeping, ink, colored pencil and watercolor, 13 x 10 1980 Christopher, charcoal, 17 x 22 1980 Girl Next Door, charcoal, 22 x 31 1980 Joe Kagle, charcoal, 20 x 26 1980 Lakeview Series #60, wc, 30 x 22 1980 Samantha, charcoal, 20 x 26 1980 Window Image, collage, 30 x 18 1980 Window Image #1, acrylic, 24 x 19 1980 Window Image #2, acrylic, 25 x 19 1980 Window Image #3, acrylic, 25 x 19 1980 Window Image #4, acrylic, 25 x 19 1981 Anne in her Favorite Bathrobe, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Anne Nude with Hawk, charcoal, 24 x 20 1981 Anne Nude with Wallpaper, charcoal, 24 x 20 1981 Dust Field #1, acrylic, 25 x 20 1981 Dust Field #2 with Two Nudes, acrylic, 25 x 20 1981 Dust Field #3 with Two Nudes, acrylic, 25 x 20 1981 Dust Field #4 with Blue Nude, acrylic and colored pencil 1981 Dust Field #5 with Nude in Interior, color pencil and acrylic 1981 Dust Field #5 with Standing Nude, colored pencil and acrylic 1981 Dust Field #6 with Standing Male Nude, acrylic, 20 x 25 1981 Dust Field #7 with Seated Nude, acrylic, 20 x 25 1981 Dust Field #8 with Pink Nude, colored pencil and acrylic 1981 Dust Field #9 with Nude on Staff, colored pencil and acrylic 1981 Dust Field #10 with Pink Nude, colored pencil and acrylic 1981 Dust Field #11,with Nude, acrylic, 25 x 20 1981 Dust Series- Anne in Hat, charcoal and oil crayon, 20 x 26 1981 Dust Series- Artist as Clown, charcoal and oil crayon 1981 Dust Series- Man in Hat, charcoal and oil crayon, 19 x 24 1981 Dust Series- Self Portrait #2, charcoal and oil crayon 1981 Dust Series-Self Portrait, charcoal and oil crayon, 22 x 32 1981 Dust through the Window #2, oil crayon, 24 x 18 1981 Dust through the Window, oil crayon, 21 x 15 1981 Dust through the Window, photo and oil crayon, 20 x 20 1981 Lakeview Series #50, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #59, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #60, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #61, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #70, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #71, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Lakeview Series #72 with Clown Face, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Ma and Pa Kagle, acrylic and collage, 29 x 23 1981 Ma and Pa Kagle II, right side, w.c., 30 x 22 1981 Phoenix, Arizona, watercolor, 30 x 22 1981 Window Scene #1, watercolor, 9 x 12 1982 Window Image #2, watercolor, 16 x 12 1982 Window Image #3, watercolor, 16 x 12 1982 Window Image #4, watercolor, 16 x 12 1982 Window Image #5, watercolor, 16 x 12 1982 Window Image #12, watercolor, 30 x 23 1982 Window Image # 18, watercolor, 30 x 23 1982 Window Image #21, watercolor, 30 x 23 1982 Window Image #23, watercolor, 30 x 23 1982 Window Image #34, watercolor, 30 x 23 1982 Window Image #35, w.c., 30 x 22 1982 Window Image #1, watercolor, 16 x 12 1982 Window Scene #2, acrylic, 12 x 16 1983 Anne in Favorite Bathrobe, wc, 30 x 22 1983 Room Interior with Dust, watercolor, 30 x 23 1984 Dream with Stairs and Nails, watercolor, 30 x 23 1984 From the Car #60, w.c., 30 x 22 1984 On the Beach in Massachusetts, w.c., 30 x 22 1984 The Bedroom, watercolor, 30 x 22 1985 Figure Study #60, watercolor, 20 x 26 1985 Figure Study #62, watercolor, 22 x 30 1985 Figure Study #63, Anne, watercolor, 22 x 30 1985 Figure Study #64, watercolor, 22 x 30 1985 Figure Study #61, watercolor, 20 x 26 1985 Floral Study, watercolor and oil crayon, 22 x 30 1985 Window Image #59, w.c., 30 x 22 1986 Anne #4, acrylic, 20 x 25 1986 Anne #5 1986 Figure Study #25, watercolor, 20 x 26 1986 Figure Study #26, watercolor and ink, 22 x 30 1987-88 Space Mission I, ink and acrylic, 20 x 13 1987 Dream Swimming Series (Water Glass), ink and acrylic, 1988-89 Dream Swimming #1, pencil and acrylic, 22 x 30 1988-89 Dream Swimming #2, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #3, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #4, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #5, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #6, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #7, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #8, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #9, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #10, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #11, pencil and acrylic, 22 x 30 1988-89 Dream Swimming #13, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #14, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #16, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming #17, pencil and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Dream Swimming Landscape #15, w.c. and acrylic, 30 x 22 1988-89 Figure in Dust Field #12, acrylic and collage, 25 x 20 1988-89 Figure with Plant, watercolor and ink, 10 x 14

Major Works of Art

Drawings and Painting
      Banned in Spokane
Public Art projects in Guam
Commissions:
      Large Canvases
      Sides of Trade Center,
      Restaurants
      Other Public Art Pieces
Finger Lake Retreat Watercolors
Chinese Brush Painting
      in a Western Style
Dust Field Series

Influences

Japanese Edo Prints
Mirconesian Storyboards
Harold Balazs
Terry Corbin
Taiwan Aborigine Art
Chinese Hell Scrolls
Chinese Ancestor Portraits
Travelling to 19 Countries
      and 19 Ports of Call
Fulbright grant study
Oceanic Art and the Pacific
Island Life and Times
Allen Kaprow
Robert Rauschenberg
Nikos Kazantzakis
Townsend Wolfe
Kimon Friar
Study of Dust

Processes

Large-Scale Thinking
Working for the Public
Less is More
Examination of Creative Process
Isolation with Intense Work
Collecting Art
Building Images
Not-a-Native Ideas
Travel as a Process
Keeping in touch with artists and
      friends for ideas around the world

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