page_title: Peter Josyph
section_title: Art and exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Josyph / Art and exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Cormac McCarthy's House by Peter Josyph
context_page_description: Peter Josyph is a New York artist who works concurrently as an author, a painter, an actor-director, a filmmaker, and a photographer.
context_section_description: For seven years Josyph was artist-in-residence at the Smithtown Township Arts Council, where he won the Partnership Award from the Association of New York Arts Councils and a grant from the New York Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. His work as a painter has made him a New Yorker Talk of the Town and a Fellow of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has had solo exhibitions in New York; in Texas; in California; in Washington, D.C.; in Baden-Baden and in Heidelberg, Germany, where for two decades his dealer has been Galerie Signum Winfried Heid. Solo exhibitions include the New York State Vietnam Memorial Gallery; the Well of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York; the Rotunda of the Canon Office Building of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.; the historic landmark Central Savings Bank (now Apple Bank) on Broadway in Manhattan; the historic landmark Mills Pond House in St. James, New York; and he has exhibited at the New-York Historical Society.
  Josyph's ongoing series of works on paper, Cormac McCarthy’s House, has exhibited at the Kulturens Hus in Luleå, Sweden; at the CAPITAL Centre in Warwick, England; at the Centennial Museum in El Paso, Texas; and at the Longwall Gallery of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center in Berea, Kentucky. The series is the subject of a memoir called "Cormac McCarthy’s House" in the book of that title (University of Texas Press), and a film of that title, directed by Peter Josyph and Raymond Todd. His series All the Pretty Horses: A Tribute exhibited at the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center in March – June 2013. His series The Lost Blood Meridian Notebook exhibited in Australia at the historic Female Orphan School of the University of Western Sydney in summer 2014.
  Josyph has collaborated with painter, poet, and theatre director Kevin Larkin on numerous exhibitions, such as Portrait of an American Town and, as Josyph & Larkin, an ongoing series of found-object assemblages called Lives of the Saints, which became a major installation in the historic Church of the Advent on Broadway in Manhattan, including a 40-foot altarpiece, St. Jerome in His Study. Josyph & Larkin have also issued Lives of the Saints as correspondence art in a series of limited edition postcards including The Conversion of Mary Magdalene and St. Genet. Their work is the subject of a monograph by Raymond Todd, Josyph and Larkin: X-Men of Art (ImaginArts, 1994). Josyph's monograph, Kevin Larkin: The Genuine Article (emPublishing, 1989), features conversations with Larkin about his work, and Josyph wrote the text for the exhibition catalogues Kevin Larkin: The Immortal Chant ($3 Seat Productions, 2010), and Kevin Larkin: The Justice of Noon ($3 Seat Productions, 2012). He also illustrated two collections of poetry by Larkin: The Immortal Chant ($3 Seat Productions, 2009), and A Portable Man ($3 Seat Productions, 2012). In 2009 Larkin's exhibition The Immortal Chant featured a multimedia installation based around Josyph's memoir Smoking A Picasso. In 2010 Larkin directed an adaptation of Josyph's verse monologues, Book of Thieves, and in 2010 he directed Josyph's A Tell Tale Poe with Raymond Todd as Edgar Allan Poe, and the Hagans/Josyph performance of Josyph's The Way of the Trumpet. In November 2012 Larkin directed Josyph's play The Last Colored Lightbulb in Louisiana at B.J. Spoke in New York. In 2013, Alexander Larkin directed The Last Colored Lightbulb in Louisiana along with Josyph's Of Course December at the Rose Theatre in New York.
  Josyph's art and photography have been used on posters, book covers, and CDs, including The Kennedy Suite by the Cowboy Junkies (Latent Recordings, 2013); The Moon Is Waiting by Tim Hagans (Palmetto, 2011); The Avatar Sessions by Tim Hagans (Fuzzy Music, 2010); Close to So Far by the Joe LoCascio Trio (Heart Music, 2002); They Rode On: Blood Meridian and the Tragedy of the American West (Cormac McCarthy Society Press, 2013); You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's Knoxville (Cormac McCarthy Society Press, 2012); John Se
caption: Cormac McCarthy's House by Peter Josyph
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