Joe Völlan | Day 21

Joe Vollan has a distinct and eerie style he calls doom folk art.  His works describe tales of heartache and adventure.  This majority of his artwork is inspired by the tales of heartache and adventure of the inhabitants of the City of Rusted Gallows; a post apocalyptic, rundown factory town populated by secret skeleton societies and strange but friendly creatures. They exist there despite their predicament; content and hopeful in this dilapidated world.

Joe Vollan uses his refined artistic skills to develop eccentric pop surrealist images, which reveal harrowing and mysterious tales. The heart of his work evokes emotion through senses of wonderment as it pertains to the fantastic and bizarre world he creates.

Joe has been exhibiting at Revolution Gallery just a few months after we opened. See his work in the following exhibits here: Flash Krampus show 2020, Grim Allegories. Drawn Out, Apart Together, Mini Masterpieces 2020, Something Wicked 2019, Sonic Splendor, Drawn Together, We are the Resistance, Love Sick, Between the Gates, and his solo shows On Behalf of the Under Enthusiastic and Doom Folktales.

Look for Joe’s next show at Revolution Gallery when he has a two person show for our fifth year anniversary this November 2021. 

Revolution Gallery curated a mural for the back of our building (outside), and Joe created and painted “The Queen City Procession” last summer and fall, and completed it this past July. Limited edition prints of this mural (photographed by kc kratt) are on sale here at the gallery.