n the special day of its 5th anniversary, Dorothy Circus Gallery brings on the contemporary Italian art scene the famous American painter Joe Sorren, with a solo Show that will open on October 7th 2011. Joe Sorren, a leading pop-surrealist artist together with Mark Ryden, has exhibited in the most important galleries all over the world: his artworks have been exhibited in the show “Art from the New World” at the Bristol City Museum and in the show “Pop Surrealism” curated by Dorothy Circus Gallery at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto in the occasion of “Two World” Festival. In 2010, Sorren published his second monography for the Murphy Design Publishing in the occasion of the exposition “Joe Sorren Interruption”, the first museum retrospective that has been dedicated to his art, at the Grand Central Art Center of California State University. Joe Sorren’s artworks have been published on many important magazines, as the New Yorker, the Time and Rolling Stone and have also been used by Warner Bros and Atlantic Records: for example Sorren drew the covers of Tweaker’s albums “The attraction to all things uncertain” and “2 a.m. wake up call”. Sorren is now one of the most important artists all over the world and he became a real inspiration for young artists. Everyone knows his famous and huge mural artwork of 12m x 9m that adorns the wall of Heritage square in Flagstaff, whose composition needed 9 months. In his artworks he creates worlds where mysterious creatures are hidden, enclosed in unattainable and inaccessible oceans absorbed in a melancholic but at the same time joyful examination of all the wonders of the world and of the human spirit, painted with oil that recreates the warm gold of the sun rises piercing through the clouds of a summer storm. Sorren is much in demand by investors; buyers include major newspapers, banks and personalities such as David Arquette, Donna Baxter, NIKE President Mark Parker and Jim Jarmusch.
For this Italian Show Sorren will create 5 new artworks that surely will call back all the collectors and will make them mad about him. In all over the world the admiration for this painter becomes every moment stronger and everyone is waiting for this Show… the reason is so clear to find: he create a story that put his root deeply in the heart, in the most precious and hidden part of it, he tells an everlasting story: the story of childhood.
For this Italian Show Sorren will create 5 new artworks that surely will call back all the collectors and will make them mad about him. In all over the world the admiration for this painter becomes every moment stronger and everyone is waiting for this Show… the reason is so clear to find: he create a story that put his root deeply in the heart, in the most precious and hidden part of it, he tells an everlasting story: the story of childhood.