Joe Cauchi was a life-long artist, painter and art teacher.  His works span 50+ years, beginning with early sketches of New York City and scenes of farmers and farm workers. He lived in the Greenwich Village section of New York City from 1931 to 1944, while working at Cornell Medical College as a medical illustrator and micro-photographer. He attended formal art classes at the Art Students League and the New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Edith Beiner (later to be his wife & partner in art) and Jackson Pollock. He spent much of his free time traveling to rural and poorer parts of the country during the depression, sometimes living with the migrant workers while painting the story of their lives and their workplaces.

His bold imaginative works of the 1960's and 1970's were produced from his studio in West Redding, Connecticut (60 miles north of N.Y.C.). The works often had themes of microscopic, conflicting forces, cosmic and astronomical events, with subjects sometimes associated with science fiction.  He worked mainly in oils, watercolors and acrylic paints, as well as charcoal sketches.

In 1996 the entire remaining collection of some 250 of his paintings has been relocated to Colorado; currently exhibited and archived in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, about five miles west of Denver.   

2024 and 2023 PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS and SHOWINGS

In SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER 2024: an all-new solo exhibit has been opened, from 9/6/2024 to mid-October 2024, featuring six large-scale acrylic-on-canvas paintings in the Microscopic to Cosmic series and four binders of 1930's watercolors. 

OCTOBER: EXPANDED EXHIBIT, EXPANDED DAYS: The exhibit continues at 7172 W. 38th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033. Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday, 10 am to 2 pm. Check for latest gallery times.

In May 2023 two Microscopic to Cosmic style paintings were on exhibit for 4 weeks in this same gallery.

Individual works are on exhibit or owned in Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, California and the nation of Malta.

THE 1930's AND 1940's

MODERN WORKS

spikes (1969)

forces #101

forces #102

   
Eulogy for Martin Luther King (1968)

Cauchi Family History: The Malta Connection

Joe Cauchi was born and raised on the Mediterranean island of Malta (60 miles south of Italy). The son of Dr. Thomas Cauchi, MD, of Victoria, Gozo, Joe began medical training himself in Europe before coming to the United States in 1930. His younger brother Alfred became a well-known physician in Malta until his death in 1990. His sister, Sr. Maria Louisa (Vittorina) Cauchi became a mother superior with the Sisters of Charity hospital and orphanage during and after World War II. His other sister, Adelina Vella, lived in Australia for more than 60 years until her death in 2002.  The personal and family influence of medicine, especially in his paintings based on views through the microscope, is evident in a number of Joe's later works.

 

 

rev. 7/10/2023 & 9/29/2024