“Love Story,” 2021, acrylic on canvas, 90″ X 30″
Love Story
Author: Joseph Abbati
A creative director and artist with over 15 years working with 3 Fortune 500 companies working on branding and creative. He is currently working on artwork and consulting. His company D Quarters produces home decor items.
Newest Trio
I enjoy doing paintings in series of three. Here are the latest (2021) acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 24″.
“Double Vision”
Here is a view of “Facing Oneself,” 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ (triptych) at the Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. It is part of a national juried group exhibit from March 5-30, 2021.
Queer Anthology
UN//TITLED: An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art (2016 – 2020) I will be a featured artist along with 75 other queer artists being published in April 2021 by Balaclava.Q (John Hopper Publishing)
VR Galleries
These VR galleries include works from 2018-2020.
Download the gallery catalog here:
New Paintings
New paintings from 2020.
“Facing Oneself,” 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Adonis & Anemones”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“We Speak For Our Ancesters”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Parallel Lives”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Twogether”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Male Gaze”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Male Gaze 2″, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30” 
“Foothold”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Skin Deep”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Pan Ascending”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30″ X 30″ 
“Internal Dialog”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 18″ X 18″ 
“What We Tell Ourselves”, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 18″ X 18″
“Introductions 2020” at Root Division
I am part of Root Division’s “Introductions 2020” this year opening August 19, 2020. Six pieces will be part of this group exhibit from my “Queeries” series of artwork. View the online exhibit at https://rootdivisiontalk.wpcomstaging.com/gallery/
“Circle Jerk,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 30in. round 
“Ball Sack,” 2018, basketball hoop, net, and balls 
“Bare Back,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 30in. round 
“Foot Soldier,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 24in X 24in 
“Tongue,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 16in X 16in 
“Big Boy,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 24in X 24in 
Exhibit Wall 
Exhibit Gallery
The catalog for this exhibit can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/rootdivision/docs/intro2020_catalogue/16
Wood Inlaid Paintings
These assemblages are an extension of the “Queeries” series made with different inlaid wood veneers stained with acrylic paint.
“Cheeky,” 2020, acrylic on cherry wood inlaid veneer 
“Embrace,” 2020, acrylic on cherry wood inlaid veneer 
“Isolation 4,” 2020, acrylic on cherry wood inlaid veneer 
“Tongue Swag,” 2020, acrylic on cherry wood inlaid veneer 
“Tongue Wagging,” 2020, walnut, maple, and cherry wood inlaid veneer
Tongue Wagging,” 2020, acrylic stain, walnut, maple, and cherry wood inlaid veneer
Diasporic Futurism
Two of my paintings will be part of an exhibit titled “Diasporic Futurism“ at Root Division. This online exhibition features 18 artists who are interrogating the definition of futurism as it relates to diasporic peoples’ movement throughout their politicized histories. Exhibiting artists will address the inherent questions of identity politics with work that explores belonging, family, the body, and sex. Each artist will explore futurism as it relates to their personal history within and beyond forced diasporas using science fiction/fantasy, visual design, comics, immersive sound, textile, and video.
Exhibition Dates: Jul 9, 2020 to Aug 8, 2020 at https://rootdivision.org/exhibition-rd-gallery/diasporic-futurism
Marswalker 
Mulitverse
SF Pride 2020 – 50 Years Online Exhibit
Senator Scott Wiener and Joseph Abbati, Curator, host an online photographic exhibit celebrating fifty years of Pride. “SF Pride 2020 – 50 Years” features nine San Francisco Bay Area photographers and film makers with over 900 photographs and seven films spanning five decades documenting San Francisco Pride parades and events.
The photographers include: Arthur Tress, Gooch, Ron Williams, Tommy Wu, Darryl Pelletier, Jim James, Rink Foto, Rich Stadtmiller, and Charles Roseberry. Each photographer brings a wealth of history to create a narrative about the celebration of LGBTQ+ lives at our San Francisco Pride parades from the 1970s to 2019.
This is the golden anniversary of SF Pride for the LGBTQ+ community. There is still more education needed to pass our history down to future generations and to not forget where LGBTQ rights started from and where we are today. This is a document for us to reflect how far we have come. We celebrate the strong will of our community which has fought hard and showed the world that “we’re here, we’re queer,” and we haven’t finished claiming our human rights.
