2008  

one pot + Joey Veltkamp:  Booklets, Seattle, Washington

2007  

Recent Paintings, Habitude at the Locks, Ballard, Washington

2006

Bears and Flowers, retrofit home, Seattle, Washington

Flowers, The Dandelion Botanical Company, Ballard, Washington

Recent Paintings, Lark, Seattle, Washington

Group Exhibitions

2008

            EARL 3.0 Robotic Art Dispenser, The Hideout, Seattle, Washington

Selected Works, The Hideout, Seattle, Washington

2007

EARL 3.0 Robotic Art Dispenser, The Hideout, Seattle, Washington

Gathering, Vermillion Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Fear @ Art House, Atlanta, Georgia

Big Bang Birthday Bash, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Bunnies, retrofit home, Seattle , Washington

Selected Works, The Hideout, Seattle , Washington

2006

Painted On, The Lee Pratt Fine Arts Center

Ten for under $100, retrofit home, Seattle, Washington

Artist Statement

Joey Veltkamp was born in Helena, Montana during the 1970s.  The spirit of frontier-ism and the West plays heavily in his approach to art.  His art* doesn’t take itself too seriously.  But that shouldn’t be taken for weakness. Joey believes the best ideas can be conveyed simply.  His art is sweet but not too sweet. Growing up gay in smaller towns has created a domestic burliness in his art.  A painting of a bucking bronco might have embroidered clouds or a ‘painting’ of a deer might be made out of glitter.  As PI art critic, Regina Hackett, said, “He's using doily-cute methods to achieve rugged ends, a neat trick.”

These days, Joey has been producing photo-based narrative drawings about his everyday life.  He marries his internal dialogues with his external day to day happenings.  The results are non-linear booklets usually based around a theme (Jesus Christ Superstar, loss or the dinner table).

* and by art, I mean my manifestations of genius.