Unique Monoprint 1/1

oil on paper, 24 × 18 inches, 2025

Signed by the artist

One-of-a-Kind Monoprints, Summer 2025Inspired by Joe Fleming’s plexiglass paintings with screen-printed elements, this series of monoprints captures the spontaneity and texture of painterly gesture in a unique impression. Each work is a fusion of painting and printmaking. Over the summer Joe worked with master printer Gideon Naf to create the monoprints.

Joe Fleming is a Canadian artist whose recent work examines how the pervasive influence of mass media shapes contemporary culture.

Working across a range of mediums, including painting, video, and digital art, Fleming blurs the boundaries between the hand-made and the mechanical. His dynamic mark-making merges manual gesture with machine precision, creating a compelling interplay between figure and ground within a modernist framework.

His paintings are particularly striking in their ability to manipulate light: layered surfaces allow illumination to pass through, casting shifting shadows onto the wall and activating the space beyond the painting. The resulting works are visually rich and conceptually layered, combining abstracted, animated imagery with a critical exploration of identity, mass production, political unrest, and transformation.

Joe Fleming’s career spans over two decades, marked by numerous solo exhibitions internationally in galleries in major cities, including Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and New York City. Fleming has lectured at universities in Canada, the United States, and South East Asia since 1993. His paintings are included in numerous public and private collections, such as BMO Financial Group, Trimark Mutual Funds, Honeywell Bull, Prince Waterhouse Coopers (Malaysia), HSBC Bank, A.T. Tolley Collection, Australian High Commission, Canadian High Commission (Kuala Lumpur), the Art Gallery of Edmonton, the Museum of Civilization (Hull, Quebec), and the Holocaust Museum (LA). Fleming has participated in several international art fairs, including Art Stage (Singapore), FIAC (Paris), Arte Cologne (Germany), Scope (New York and Miami), Art Miami, Papier (Montreal), and TIAF (Toronto). His work has been featured in a variety of publications, such as Carte Blanche 2: Painting - a survey of new Canadian painting (The Magenta Foundation), 60 Painters in Canada, The Artist’s Studio (by Joseph Hartman), American Illustration, Imago Mundi, Design Lines Magazine, Azure Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, CBC, Chelsea Now, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine.