Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Monthly exhibit of Outer Cape Contemporary Artists

December - Joe Diggs

On Exhibit: November 30 - December 31

Reception for the artist: November 30 - 3:00 - 5:00

Curated by Robert Rindler

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artistic base and inspiration is my backyard view of Micha’s Pond in Osterville MA where generations of my family have lived, loved, and worked. As a young man, I, like many of my friends, left Cape Cod to experience the world. I studied art and traveled extensively to then return home to my family and run our family businesses. I then painted my landscape through new eyes, moving from the representation of my youth into the layered abstraction to include all the layers of meaning that emerge in full voice. Even after all this time, there is always something new to explore, discover and paint. My life and my paintings embody the contradictory dialectic of my existence as a land-owning Black man in America. I have always been pushed to define my work in one way, but I cannot because I am many things at one time, all of which are layered into my paintings.

ARTIST’S BIO
Joseph (Joe) Diggs is a practicing artist, curator, and educator with generational roots in Cape Cod. The inspirations for his paintings range freely from realist depictions of African American history to personal family memories, from plein-air landscapes to gestural abstractions, from large canvas murals to miniature works on cardboard. Although stylistically diverse, Digg’s artworks are closely united by a celebration of texture, color, and form.
Although based on Cape Cod, Joseph Digg’s artworks are housed in many national and international private collections. Joe Diggs is represented by Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.