Joe Roache is an artist living in Tallahassee, Florida who does work primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas as well as computer enhanced and generated images. Mr. Roache completed his undergraduate work (B.S.) at Florida A&M University graduating in 1974 and graduate work (M.F.A.) at The University of Wisconsin, Madison graduating in 1983.
Roache has participated in many group and one-man exhibitions. His work is represented in the collections of Barnett Bank of Florida (Jacksonville, FL), the City of
Orlando, the Bendix Corp., Xerox Inc., the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the University of South Florida as well as many private collections. His group and one-man shows include exhibitions at Alabama State University, The Atlanta Life Insurance Show, Alabama A&M University, U.S National-International Art Show for the Division of Cultural Affairs of Florida, Gulf Coast Community College, Four Arts Gallery – Florida State University, LeMoyne Art Foundation in Tallahassee, Florida, and Okaloose-Walton Community College; The Jacksonville Jazz Festival; The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Joe Roache has done work with digital images and 3D animation and has lectured on those subjects at The University of Oslo, Norway, The University of Nicynhy Norgod, Russia, The University of Edinburg, Scotland, The University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Florida A&M University, Mr. Roache was commissioned in 1996 to do a large-scale painting that is housed on the first floor lobby of the School of Business and Industry Building. His work is also in the collection of the FAMU Black Archives and the Coleman Library.
Artist Statement
I believe that visual art is a way of communicating ideas and feelings that cannot be expressed in any other way. Cultures all over the world and throughout history can be studied and better understood via the art and artifacts that they leave. The power that images contain can educate in a much more profound way than words alone. Visual communication is a way for a society or a group of people to communicate their thoughts and feelings to the world.
