JOE DEVERA

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Joe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy (examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects) while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the Philippines as a youth and enlisting in the Marines Corps after high school — serving two combat deployments to Iraq in support of the Second Gulf War/GWOT — deVera’s works are also autobiographical observations of power structures and the machines of empire.

He lives in St. Louis, MO, where he works as an Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University.