My name is Joe Alexander.   

My e-mail address is joekevalex@hotmail.com. 

My address is 257 22nd St., Fayetteville, Arkansas,72701, 

I welcome all contacts.

I moved to Fayetteville, AR in 1980 & have lived here since.  I have been strongly interested in art all my life, especially drawing and painting. I was born in Chicago in 1951. In the summer of 1972 I was living in Toronto in Canada and drew portraits on the street and at the Ontario Place fairgrounds to support myself, my first professional experience as an artist. In the fall of 1973 I decided to become a sign painter as I had for several years been fond of lettering. I worked at 3 excellent sign shops in Toronto from 1973 to 1976, getting first-class on-the-job training, in '77 went out on my own and have made my living primarily as a sign painter ever since. I always tried to do an exceptionally artistic job on my signs to make them a cut above the average commercial sign and so far have managed to keep busy at hand sign-painting in spite of the fact that around 1995 the computer-generated stick-on vinyl lettering systems have just about completely taken over the sign business. In 1983 I got bored with just painting signs and began to devote some time every day to drawing and painting pictures. I have since sold several dozen paintings and won 3 honorable mentions at local juried art shows. I work primarily in oil, do some watercolors also, like to draw with ball point pen especially. I've painted a few book covers, also do some calligraphy. My subjects have been primarily portraits, landscapes, & old cars & trucks which I particularly like to paint, and houses and buildings, I have received probably over a dozen commissions for paintings of houses and buildings and am always happy to do more. I am not presently affiliated with any art groups.

My art may be viewed and purchased at my website, www.joealexander.net,  I also have some pictures on display currently at Bo's Muddy Water Coffeehouse which is in Colt Square in Fayetteville, on Green Acres Rd. on the north side of Colt Square, also I have a couple of pictures up at the Dickson St. Book Exchange on Dickson at University in Fayetteville, also anyone wanting to see my stuff is always welcome to call.

My paintings are particularly notable for beauty of color, which is due to the fact that I live on an all raw food diet, I began doing this to improve my health in 1976 and not only did it remarkably improve my health but also remarkably improved the quality of my art, making my drawing clearer and better proportioned and my colors much brighter and more beautiful, in other words improving my personal health caused my art to show healthier qualities of greater clarity, boldness, better proportion, vitality and beauty of color. This experience demonstrated to me that the strongest art is also the most beautiful, there is no conflict between strength and beauty in art, just as in nature the strongest and healthiest flowers, plants, horses, tigers, birds & whatnot are also the most beautiful to look at, so also the strongest art is the most beautiful and vice-versa.  To create a thing of great beauty whatsoever the subject matter might be is the artist's highest accomplishment requiring the most intelligence, vitality & skill, in nature ugliness is a sign of disease & weakness, so also in art. I have published a booklet on this subject entitled WHAT IS BEAUTY? in which I maintain that beauty is an objective quality which is recognized by the human mind when we see it and not a subjective thing which each person can conjure up a different personal conception of as currently popular faddish theory maintains, anyone interested in reading this booklet is welcome to contact me.

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