The paintings you create; they are such dense creatures! Some of these eyes have fifty or sixty sets. Are they leaving the lake at the same time?
I’m big in my eyes and teeth. Yes, we hold mandatory meetings every month.
Some people may not know that you are the job of the Fox show family, a storyboard artist and occasional director. In one plot, the characters fall into the nightmarish world of Vaux. What does it feel like to limit your personal art to crossover through commercial art in a large number of TV shows?
My paintings are my passion, but animation has paid the bill for my adult life. I’ve been directing the Family Guy plot for 11 seasons and worked on the show for 18 years. I have been working in animation since 1996. I’m really lucky to have two art media. A day of work has brought me into contact with many other great, inspiring artists. We work together on the plot, which is essentially a group art project. Our minds, the pool ideas and eliminate the donkey. We have a very talented and friendly team at FG.
Just before I switched from Assistant Director to Dean of Family Guy, I got an amazing opportunity. The writers in the performance, they realize
OK, what is Wihwin. Why is it staring so blankly?
“Wihwin” was created for a book called “Beasts” and is a series of artists engaged in the interpretation of mythical creatures. Wihwin is a vicious water spirit from Central America, part of horses, part of crocodile. Don’t be fooled by that blank stare. It is observing all its surroundings.
Describe your painting as a variant hybrid of Ralph Bakshi and Hieronymus Bosch? If not, why not? …
Ralph Bakshi Plus H. Bosch equals Joe Vaux. I’ll take it! Ralph actually gave me my first job in animation. I will always be grateful. He really brought me under his wings. It was a surreal first show, working for animation idols in a small studio in New York. I think his film The Witcher played an important role in my artistic development. I will also add to the above equation. RB + HB + 2 Magical Artist Parents + 1 Dementia Uncle + 70 and 80 Movies = Joe Vaux
I noticed that you are displaying the sculpture in a glitch. Can you tell us about the company you are involved in?
The “Glitch” will come with 3 small sculptures. I headed to the trophy of the forest. It’s been a while, but I used to carve it often. My first solo show at Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery in 2004, there are beasts of many dimensions. I carved a giant shark fin and tore my solo “Capture of the Day” on the floor of the Copro Gallery. Adventures into 3D are not new rewards.
IIt is important to keep a half-respected publication and we want to ask you at least one near-tempting question, which makes you so uneasy that you have barely answered. You know, the reader can feel the uncomfortable nature of the whole round trip…the problem is, we are what you do, so we are a little biased. Well, we should ask you to make you almost angry with us, but still respect our questions?
ha! Hey, I’m honored to be asked to do this and you can ask me anything. My paintings make me happy, they aren’t necessarily filled with deep meanings or broken undeveloped art fields, but I think they are interesting. I imagine each piece as if they were still lifes to auto-arrange movies or natural videos. As far as an uneasy question is concerned, how: Joe, did you go to that jacuzzi while you were active in diarrhea?
Oh, error. in this case. We will leave it behind. But when it comes to uncomfortable things, have you fully recovered from winning the elimination? What did you do with your bonus?
ah! wipe out! OK, my neck will never be the same, but my wipes look figured out. Season 5, Episode 7, “That’s the Way of Snow”
What can I say, I am the punishment glutton. My income goes to lovely front yard fences and kids’ college funding. It takes a lot of time/investment.
Joe Vaux’s solo show “Glitch” opened in March at the Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Images are provided by the gallery.
