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Joseph B. O'Sickey | |
| Birth Date: November 9, 1918 |
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| Death Date: July 22, 2013 Artist Gallery |
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| The "Old Man’s Garden” – a staccato of color on a warm summer’s day. Let us enter this man’s colorful garden and enjoy all the glorious colors.
Joseph O’Sickey was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 9, 1918, but lived in Ohio for most of his life. His father, Joseph, was a tool and die maker, his mother, Helen, was a multilingual interpreter and factory worker. As a child, he attended art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He went on to graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1940. While he was at the Institute, his teachers were Henry G. Keller, Paul Travis, Frank Wilcox, Carl Gaertner and William Eastman.
O'Sickey was never a full-time artist, he always worked at other jobs to earn a living. He had no complaints, however, about having to work for the privilege of painting. After working in the graphics and interior design field, he taught at Ohio State University, Akron Art Museum, Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University.
O’Sickey utilized large canvases and painted on location – outdoors. “The assumption I make is that I start with a whole and I act upon that whole. I don’t design it beforehand or worry about atmosphere. I work with the periphery of the painting to establish the field for my action. My painting fills in as I make decisions. I am particularly interested in whether some mark is a brush stroke or an area of color. I am extremely interested in the contrast of the mark in relation to the white ground."
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