About
Steve Joester's artwork taps into the pure energy of the live onstage performances he captured nearly thirty years ago. He has created a new visual mode, heightening the photos to evoke a transcendence of time and place. Joester simultaneously combines an element of nostalgia and religious iconography, capturing the signature style and energy of each rock legend. Exhibiting his photography in a new context, Joester uses unconventional materials such as nail polish and pieces of burlap combined with gold leaf paint - materials that magically immortalize rock icons on a tactile surface. Joester recreates his own experience for the viewer, combining a sense of freedom with religious overtones, creating rock and roll time capsules and modern day relics. Windows into an explosive, pure and uninhibited rock world, Joester's mixed media works lure the viewer into an expressive narrative, preserving rock history with a seamless blending of chaos and control in both image and application.
Joester translates his images into inspired Pop Art collages. In November of 2005 and 2006, Joester exhibited his work in a private show at the former Andy Warhol Factory located at 860 Broadway. Joester's original photographs have been featured in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Interview, Cream, and Cosmopolitan. Joester has worked with every major record label and created album sleeves and posters for musicians including Bob Marley, Ginger Baker, and Be Bop Delux.