Also known as: brevoort
Joe Castro Brevoort is a nationally recognized collage artist, graphic designer, musician (The Lift Up), and oil painter.. Following a year stint as Art Director for Please Touch Museum, the Childrens Museum of Philadelphia, he left the organization in to commit full time to building Red Attic Studios into the successful business it has become. He has won numerous awards for his design work, which has been featured in Graphic Design USA magazine. As an artist, his paintings and collages have been shown in galleries and art spaces across the United States, Canada, Italy and the UK. In , he was one of artists selected (from over applicants) by Vans and Color Magazine to customize one pair of canvas sneakers, which were displayed in art shows in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. In , two of his paintings became skateboard graphics - one for for Science Skateboards (London, UK) and the other for Switch Skateboarding (Newark, DE). And in , two of his collages were among accepted (from entries) into the National Collage Society's th Annual Juried Art Exhibit at the Berman Museum. IN , his work was featured in the book The Age of Collage Contemporary Collage in Modern Art (Gestalten) as well as on the cover of The Artist Catalogue's Fall issue And in , he will be participating in a group show honoring the work of Jack Kerouac at Leeds College of Art in Britain. Specialties Computer knowledge Proficient in the following programs Indesign CS, Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver CS, Flash CS, QuarkXpress ., Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Power Point, Prezi, Microsoft Office. Printing Knowledge Comfortable designing and preparing pieces for one through six color off-set printing, die-cutting, foil stamping,pop-ups, varnishes and silkscreening.
