Joe Lima is a painter, printmaker and sculptor. He was born in Sao Miguel in the Portuguese Azores in 1963. He studied visual arts at Fanshawe College in London Ontario and at Concordia University in Montreal. Joe Lima works and lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Since the mid nineteen eighties Joe Lima has been exhibiting his work in galleries and museums across Canada and Portugal. Earlier in his career his main focus was sculpture and he participated in several exhibitions including works at the Galerie d'Art Lavalin in Montreal and Marsil Museum St. Lambert and at Sherbrooke University in Sherbrooke. Quebec.
As a painter he has exhibited his work at Cambridge, Ontario and at the Rodman Hall Arts Centre in St. Catharine's Ontario in a show titled the Uneasiness of Silence. This exhibition displayed some of Joe Lima's frescos, a medium that he has been involved with since the early nineties. His frescos have also been widely exhibited in Portugal which includes works in Ponta Delgada Azores and at Museu Nogueira da Silva in Braga.
Presently Lima is working on a body of work entitled the Barrier of Fear which includes a series of large woodcut prints and paintings. This work will have its debut at Carmina Galeria in the Azores.
Joe Lima explores the human condition in relation to one's environment. An environment that at times is unsettling and ominous. He works from film footage and photos that he has produced in Portugal and in Quebec. He explores a wide range of subjects to achieve a narrative that reveals a world of mystery and uncertainty.
Consequences
and the Unforseeable
Fresco, 96 x 122 cm, 2004
Stillness
in the Afternoon
Fresco,
96 x 122 cm, 2004
Fields
of Uncertainty, Triptych, 2002,
Fresco, (122 x 92 cm each panel)
