Joseph Abbott Maurer, Artist

Joseph Abbott Maurer, Artist All works available through my website joeart.org Joseph draws from a deep commitment to ecology and love of place. Community Garden.

Joe has a BFA in Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1999) and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (2004). His work as a team member with Hargreaves Associates Landscape Architects included design on the London Olympic Park and landscape design projects in NYC; then as a Graduate School teacher for 4 years in the Department of Landscape Architect

ure at University of Pennsylvania he refined skills that he brought home to his Mid-Western roots. In 2006 he collaborated with New York based Public Artist Mary Miss on a large scale public art and landscape project at Arlington Sewage Treatment Plant in Arlington Virginia. In his home of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Joseph spends regular time as a member of a community garden and prairie enthusiast. It is here that his work has recently taken bloom. In 2013, he designed a pavilion that stands in the Eau Claire’s Forest St. In Fall Creek, Joe designed a new Butterfly Pavilion for Beaver Creek Reserve which will open in spring of 2019. In 2020 he founded Public Art practice Timber Space Eau Claire LLC with Tim Burdnicki of Eau Claire. He has also directed, produced and shot a documentary on native remnant prairies for The Prairie Enthusiasts. Joe was Artist in Residence at Christ Church Cathedral in Eau Claire for 2018-2019. Joe is an award winning painter and has exhibited widely in the Midwest.

Painting on the ceiling from my Surley? Check!
05/19/2025

Painting on the ceiling from my Surley? Check!

VIDEO UPDATE
05/15/2025

VIDEO UPDATE

The wetlands are capturing my attention this year. The inspiration is my friend the Beaver who creates (or destroys) by ...
04/22/2025

The wetlands are capturing my attention this year. The inspiration is my friend the Beaver who creates (or destroys) by damming and felling trees. As she does this, she kills even more trees by flooding the land. These dead trees are adored by woodpecker families.

Remember that email I shared a while ago that included the statement — what creatures were right or wrong in a landscape that had been constantly changing anyway?

I wonder about the dialectic of human instincts and non-human instincts.

The process of making of paintings, being non-verbal in nature, is to work with instincts. Painting essentially is contemplating questions of color and shape. For exhample, what happens when I paint a boat RED sans light rendering and allow the boat to act as symbol? Rather than a create a nostalgic rendering I’ve opened the potential for the symbol to act on one’s imagination.

How do you play with symbols in your artwork or life?

Lastly, would you consider sharing this message?

I’d love to hear from you - Joe

PS Find a typo? Then you know it wasn’t written by CHATGPT!

LEARN ABOUT THE MURAL!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/brighten-chippewa-trails-fund-joes-tunnel-mural

Tonight there is a free discussion at UWEC around the subject of rural resentment and feeling heard. 5:30 talk I think a...
10/24/2024

Tonight there is a free discussion at UWEC around the subject of rural resentment and feeling heard. 5:30 talk I think at the Menards Constitutional Center. I can't go, but it made me think of this project I produced for Farmers' Union. Take notice that these farmers are probably not voting the same way as those of you in my bubble. But their values for taking care of the land are dead on correct. It's a 17 minute film and includes weird animations from me. Co-produced with BBill HogsethWorth your time. RReba Krueger

I engage in collaborative projects which empower others to experience and learn from nature.  Projects include murals, films, public art structures, landscape design, drawing and painting. 

Here's something I designed for beaver creek reserve a while ago
10/20/2024

Here's something I designed for beaver creek reserve a while ago

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