Joey Tepedino — Hal Bromm Gallery

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New York, NY, 10007
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Joey Tepedino

Hailed by critics as an artist who deals in “euphoria,”self taught Pennsylvania artist Joey Tepedino has been painting for over 15 years, creating a window into the inner workings of his own psyche through the development of a unique visual vocabulary. His work’s simultaneous specificity and chaotic intentionality create macrocosms—vast and multifaceted systems that represent the true complexity of what is seemingly only a small fragment of information. From loud expressions of emotion to simple thoughts and experiences, his wild paintings are able to capture the nuance of what it means to be alive today. In the words of Tepedino himself, his work attempts to “burst through [feelings of anxiety]” in order to “experience everything all at once."

As a child, Tepedino often found himself doodling. That habit stayed with him: “I've always drawn all over everything. I used to work at this one place, and I would draw all over the tables”. Those drawings would soon find a new home on canvas, as the artist began to formalize his doodles into larger-scale works. Tepedino began creating the works as a sort of emotional journal, working on canvasses as small as six by four inches. “It's all mood, how I'm feeling… And I keep coming back to it, so it's not like I do it all in one shot… it's me just putting my brain onto the canvas.” There is no origin point and no ending—the work exists as a necessary extension of Joey's own mind, expressing the wild chaos of daily thought.

“I started painting just for myself… just throwing myself onto the canvas… putting it all out there” The figures in these works are not simply hollow abstractions, they are Tepedino himself— a particular moment in his life captured forever on canvas. The authenticity of his paintings, the result of an unconscious yet necessary emotional declaration, creates a unique interconnectedness among Tepedino’s works. We are all invited to dive into his world and explore for ourselves the macrocosmic work of Joey Tepedino.

In May of 2021, Tepedino debuted his work in a group show at Connexions Gallery in Easton, Pennsylvania. Since then, he has participated in multiple group exhibitions with Hal Bromm. His solo debut exhibition, Macrocosmic Minds, opened at Hal Bromm in late 2023 to broad critical acclaim. Tepedino’s work continues to be featured in shows both at Hal Bromm in Tribeca and at Jag Gallery in Key West, FL.