Joe Patrick was my professor at the University of Iowa. He taught a legendary life drawing class that I was lucky enough to be a student in. He emailed me these photos today, and they are from his show of portrait drawings at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
I remember when Joe was explaining to me how he came to enjoy the music of Tom Waits. Dan Attoe had given Joe a couple of Tom Waits albums to listen too. Joe went home and listened to the CDs and he told Dan that he did not care for the music, Dan told him that wasn't listening to the music loud enough. So Joe went back and listened to the music louder, came back and pronounced the music as very good!
It is this kind of hidden distinction and detail that Joe has boundless enthusiasm for, and is always ready to point out: the music is only good when played loudly.
Joe also creates landscapes and urban scenes, they are oil paintings, based on his sometime home in Mexico:
Thank you Joe!
