Joe Keinberger

"My Work is largely influenced by mythology, folklore, classic horror films and an appreciation for the dark and macabre that can only be instilled by growing up through many a New England autumn. I tend to use a variety of media in my pieces, and techniques, so that the finished pieces are a mixture of drawing and painting as well as explorations of textural surface involving sanding, scratching and carving. I present these ghosts, demons and devils as they are, as complicated beings with secrets to hide and protect, and histories forged in chains that bind them to the melancholy of the mortal world."
“Since childhood I have always been regarded as someone who is interested in “weird things,” and I still get asked why my work and
interests are “so dark.” – These wooden panels become tablets that bear the images of things that exist beyond the everyday world.
This “darkness” lights my world and offers insight and comfort in the face of an unkind world. To peek behind the veil and to meet fellow
travelers who also play in the darkness, who find joy, humor and comfort in my work, or create inspiring work of their own, is something to cherish.”
Born in New York in 1974, Joe Keinberger moved to Massachusetts where he grew up in the one and a half horse town of Hingham, before moving to Boston to attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He now lives in Somerville where he paints and illustrates out of his hidden studio deep below the earth's crust. Major influences include Ralph Steadman, Egon Schiele, and Melinda Beck among others. Keinberger works primarily in ink and acrylic, doing loose ink drawings on top of built-up texture of acrylic and assorted dry media.
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Cadabra Releases:
Written and artwork:
Macabria
Written, artwork, read:
Macabria (7")
Artwork:
Live In Auburn, The Elder Tapes (2016)
Hallowe'en in a Suburb & Others (2016)
The Dunwich Horror (2018)
The Canterville Ghost
The Music of Erich Zann & The Hound (2020)
Ginny Greenteeth
The Hearse Song (2022)
Cadabra Illustrated 2: The Colour Out of Space
Cadabra Illustrated 9: At the Mountains of Madness
Liner Notes:
Help Is Not Coming