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Joseph Vorgity is a contemporary realist watercolorist and printmaker. His still life, landscape and male figurative subject matter are recognized by strong flat areas of color with sharp lines to delineate shapes. Some themes are narrative, others have a surreal quality while many are created primarily for their beauty and visual impact. Some of the male figurative pieces are modeled after traditional religious pictures of saints and deities while others are related to figures in Japanese woodblock prints of the early 20th century. His strongest influences come from the American Precisionist Movement, the Arts and Craft Movement and from Japonisme.
Vorgity's woodblock prints are made in the Provincetown white line style. Multi-color prints are pulled from one matrix block with a white line separating each color shape. The prints are hand rendered with watercolor giving them the quality of paintings. Each white line print has an anticipated edition of 50. Vorgity was introduced to the method in 1982 by Ferol Sibley Warthen, a major proponent of the technique in Provincetown.
Joseph also produces traditional limited edition multi-color woodblock prints and Japanese moku hanga woodblock prints having studied the latter technique with Takuji Hamanaka, Matthew Brown and William Paden.
Having first studied advertising and illustration in his hometown of Philadelphia, Vorgity moved to NYC in 1978 to attend the painting program at The School of Visual Arts. Don Nice, Don Eddy and Elizabeth Murray were influential teachers. He holds a BFA from SVA and later he received a Masters Degree in Religion from Fordham University. Joseph is a school administrator on the elementary level and has taught art and academic subjects in public and private schools for 18 years. He has also works for the wardrobe departments of Broadway and Opera productions. He was featured in an article about his woodblock prints in the October 1999 issue of American Artist Magazine.
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