Joseph Paquet
Joseph Paquet
Joseph Paquet, while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, had the good fortune of finding a mentor in John Foote who opened his eyes to the joys of drawing the human figure. After graduating, Joe met another major influence in his life, John Osborne, who was uniquely gifted in producing convincing landscape paintings from memory. Osborne believed a landscape painting should begin on location, but that its poetic essence should be completed in the solitude of the artist’s studio. Paquet experienced a demanding and rewarding apprenticeship, in which he learned to fuse field studies with the image he could see in his mind’s eye. To summarize this experience, he explains, “The intellectual process became married to the intuitive. Paint what you know well as what you see.” He goes on to expand the possibilities, “If I have the need or desire to move a mountain, add a figure or change the course of a river, I can do so. I am no longer shackled to nature. Now, I am painting my picture.” Paquet teaches and paints at Hurinenko and Paquet Studio in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He has been featured in an October 1995 article in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, the May 2002 issue of The Artist Magazine, the March 2004 issue of American Artist and the July 2005 issue of Plein Air Magazine. Paquet’s recent awards include both Artists’ Choice and Collectors’ Choice from the 2007 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational as well as the 2008 Alden Bryan Memorial Prize from the Salmagundi Club of New York and the First Place in Landscape from the Richeson 75: Artist’s Choice Competition. Paquet is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of America, The Salmagundi
Paquet is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of America, The Salmagundi Club and an Out-of-State Artist Member of the California Art Club.
Awards
1986 2nd Place Landscape, Ridgewood Art Institute
6th Annual Regional Open Jury Show
1987 Landscape Award, Ridgewood Art Institute
7th Annual Regional Open Jury Show
Hudson Valley Art Association Award for a Traditional Oil Painting
Salmagundi Club, Annual Non-Member Exhibition
3rd Place Landscape, Ridgewood Art Institute
Grand Exposition Show 1988 Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award Salmagundi Club
Annual Members’ Exhibition
Junius Allen Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club
Annual Scholarship and Junior Show
Frank C. Wright Award, Hudson Valley Art Association
Annual Exhibition
Fair Lawn Art Association Award, Fair Lawn Art Association
Annual Exhibition
Dick Blick Award, Ridgewood Art Institute
8th Annual Regional Open Jury Show 1989 The Council of American Artists Societies Award, Hudson Valley Art
Association Exhibition
Landscape & Marine Award, Ridgewood Art Institute
7th Annual Regional Open Jury Show
Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award Salmagundi Club
Annual Members’ Exhibition
Grand Central Art Galleries Award, Salmagundi Club
1989 Scholarship and Junior Exhibition 1991 Arthur Maynard Memorial Award, Ridgewood Art Institute
12 Annual Regional Open Jury Award
2000 Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Invitational, Honorable Mention
2001 Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Invitational, Artists Choice Award
2005 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit
First Place, Painting 2006 Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club
Annual Members’ Exhibition Self Portrait Exhibition, Salmagundi Club
Second Prize Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Invitational
Award of Excellence 2007 Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Invitational
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Award of Excellence Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award Salmagundi Club
Annual Members’ Exhibition 9th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist’s Choice Award 9th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Collector’s Choice Award
Selected Exhibitions
Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ
Annual Regional Open Jury Show 1986*, 1987*, 1988*, 1989*
1990*, 1991*, 1992* Fairlawn Art Association, Fairlawn, NJ
Annual Open Jury Show 1988*, 1989* Hudson Valley Art Association, White Plains, NY
Annual National Open Jury Show 1988*, 1989*, 1990* Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Two-Man Exhibition 1990 American Society of Classical Realism Salon 1992 Fishscale & Moosetooth Gallery, Manassas, VA
One-Man Show 1993 Hollis Taggert Galleries, Washington, DC
Holiday Group Show 1993 John Stobart Gallery, Hilton Head, SC
One-Man Show 1996 Plein Air Painters of America
Catalina Island, CA 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002
2003, 2004 Graphics Gallery, Balboa Island, CA
Two-Man Exhibition 1999 Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Invitational 2000*, 2001*, 2002, 2006* Kelley Gallery, Stillwater, MN
One-Man Show 2000 MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA
One-Man Show 2002 Coleman Fine Art, Charleston, SC
Wet Paint Exhibition 2004 California Art Club, Gold Medal Exhibition
Pasadena, CA 2004 Plein Air Painters of America
Lake Tahoe, NV 2004, 2005 Plein Air Color & Light
Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT 2004 Trees Place, Orleans, MA
Holiday Miniature Show 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 MJW Fine Art, Balboa Island, CA
Four-Person Show 2005 Fraser Fox Fine Art, Charleston, SC
Six-Masters Paint Cumberland Island 2005 Trees Place, Orleans, MA
Two-Man Show 2005, 2006 Bennington Center for the Arts Bennington, VT
American Artist Abroad 2005-2006 Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Annual Combined Members Exhibit 2006 Self Portrait Theme Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York , NY 2006 Coleman Fine Art, Charleston, SC
Largely Florence, One-Man Show 2007 Knowlton Gallery, Lodi, CA
The Abundant Earth, Group Show 2007 Trees Place, Orleans, MA
Twilight and Reverie, 4 Person Show