数字网络、基于屏幕的世界体验与物理的、更具触觉的体验之间的紧张关系从未像现在这样尖锐。
The tension between a digitally networked, screen-based experience of the world and a physical, more tactile experience has never been more acute.
我的作品试图反映这一点，方式是把布面绘画和屏幕、平板和其他电子产品、材料结合起来。作品中，绘制的部分用作图像，也代表了油画本身。绘画对于表现缓慢、复杂历史和独特物理存在，有一种独特的能力。同时，我借助作品内或隐或现的电子元件，想要引起人们对新旧媒体物理性的关注，以及存在形式不可避免的转瞬即逝。
My works reflect this fragmented reality by combining painting on canvases with screens, tablets and other electronics and materials. The painted portions of my works function as images but also as symbols of oil painting itself. Painting has a unique capacity for slowness, a complicated history and a unique physical presence. At the same time, through at turns revealing or concealing wires and electronic components within works I draw attention to the physicality of old and new media devices and the inevitable transience of existing formats.
云控制，木板上布面油画，平板电视，CRT 电视，迷你电脑，吉他踏板，电线，有机玻璃时间胶囊，气泡膜，视频，声音，223 x 203 x 43cm，2019
Cloud Control – oil on canvas, oil on canvas over wood panel, flatscreen television, CRT television, mini-computer, guitar pedals, cords, plexiglass time capsule, bubble wrap, video, sound, 223 x 203 x 43cm, 2019
Centaurs – oil on canvas in found frame, television, guitar amplifier, arrow, wooden shelf, cords, cables, media player, video, audio, 8 x 124 x 2.5cm, 2019
Smooth & Shiny – oil on canvas panels in found frames, cassette players, cassettes, cycle timer, wooden shelf, plastic cup, pencil, the quiet whir of a cassette deck spinning, 111 x 137 x 26cm，2019
Heterotic – oil on canvases, two video works on flatscreen monitors, sound, 23 x 279 x 101cm
我希望在油画传统模式和当代理念之间做出平衡。让数字、机械工具和物理结合成不稳定、瞬间的整体，来传达出我的不适感。
I balance an interest in art historical modes of oil painting with contemporary ideas. I channel my discomfort with a present that feels broken into works that combine the digital, analog and physical realms into precarious, momentary wholes.
莱纳斯 – 泡沫塑料上的布面油画、平板显示器、媒体播放器、循环视频、急救毯，76 x 101 x 10cm, 2021
Linus – oil on canvas over styrofoam, flatscreen monitor, media player, looping video, emergency blanket, 76 x 101 x 10cm, 2021
The Mannerist Leg – acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvases, acrylic on Styrofoam, looping video on flatscreen television, EVA foam, Jpeg on monitor, media players, emergency blankets, 177 x 254 x 23cm, 2022
乔·赫奇斯是一位跨媒介艺术家，创作跨越油画、新媒体和装置。曾在肯塔基大学等地举办个人展览，也参加过不少国际展览，获得多个艺术奖项。目前他在华盛顿州生活，利用个人多样化的成长背景，致力于原创、综合的艺术创作。
Joe Hedges is an intermedia artist with an expansive practice that weaves together oil painting, new media and installation. Hedges is the recipient of several grants and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Bolivar Gallery at the University of Kentucky, Chase Gallery in Spokane, WA and Artworks in Loveland, CO. Shortly before the advent of the internet, Hedges grew up climbing trees and drawing in rural southwest Ohio in the United States. He is currently living in Pullman, Washington where he makes use of his diverse background in the arts to create original combinatorial works. In addition to maintaining his studio practice, Hedges coordinates the painting area at Washington State University and organizes community public art projects.