COLEMAN’S ODDITORIUM
by Carlo McCormick



With a mastery, precision and purpose that are regrettably rare in contemporary art, Joe Coleman has been plumbing the darkest depths of the human psyche and condition for more than 30 years. Everything grotesque, horrific, psychotic, pathogenic and reprehensible -- in short all that physically revolts, morally appalls and emotionally disturbs us, that thrusts the body politic into extreme discomfort and collective denial -- is the milieu in which Coleman finds grace and meaning.

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