Joe DiggsJoseph “Joe” Diggs paints from observation while embracing spontaneity and intuition as guiding forces in his creative process. His work merges figuration and abstraction, capturing the essence of people and places with a sense of emotional immediacy. Each painting serves as both reflection and release, allowing him to translate memory, identity, and experience into layered visual narratives.
Diggs often draws from personal history, community, and everyday environments, transforming them into expressive meditations on time and presence. The freedom of his brushwork and the interplay between control and chance reveal a tension between structure and emotion. His use of color and gesture evokes atmosphere and memory, inviting viewers into moments that are at once intimate and universal. For Diggs, painting is a space of discovery and escape. A dialogue between artist and canvas that mirrors the human desire to find meaning in both chaos and calm. Through his process, he exposes the vulnerability of creation itself, allowing honesty and instinct to guide his vision. CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Joe Diggs | Solo Exhibition, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2025 Evolving Circles, curated by Mara Williams, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, Catalogue | essay by Seph Rodney 2025 Musical Muse, Holderness School, Holderness, NY 2021 Joe Diggs: Soulscapes, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2018 Proud 2 B American curated by Mara Williams, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro VT 2012 Proud 2 B American | Joe Diggs Solo Show at The Guyer Barn, Hyannis, MA 2009 Exposed at Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, 2009. 2008 One Night Stand at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2008 On the Floor at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2025 Corrugated, curated by Jen Dragon, Opus 40, Saugerties, NY 2023 United We Stand, with Erna Partoll, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2022 Trees of Courage, Group benefit exhibition honoring the Ukraine Nation, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2022 Winter's Wonders, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2021 YELLOW CHAIR & FRIENDS: Art for the Holidays, M. David & Co. 2021 Abstracted Lineage, Berta Walker Gallery 2020 The Blue Wave, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2020 UNITY Exploring Freedom and Democracy in 2020, Berta Walker Gallery 2020 Lucy Clark, Joe Diggs, Deb Mell, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2020 Season Preview at Walker's Windows, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2020 Joe Diggs, Herman Maril, Jim Peters and Sky Power, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2016 Lost Cat curated by Betty Carroll Fuller, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2016 A Show of Political Concerns, curated by Joseph V. Diggs, Zion Union Museum, Hyannis, MA, 2016 Thar She Blows, curated by Berta Walker, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2016 Othering, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Biennial Juried Show, Pittsfield, MA 2016 On The Map, 3 S Gallery Space, Portsmouth, N.H |
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