Feroline Pavone | Agora Gallery Joey Senatore's artistic sensibilities range from surrealism to digital media. This blend of influences makes for a unique style with an inevitably contemporary sensibility. From his work with digital media Senatore has come away with a sharpened sense of gradient steps and color contrasts. His "digital gestures," such as creating gradients through steps of flat color are then interchanged with more traditional painterly elements. His connection to surrealism is still a strong one made evident by his use of the figure. Many of his works portray a visceral connection to the body, and its desire to express emotion and integrate within its surroundings. His female forms are often seductive within their overt stylization. They are like actors within Senatore's digital drama. To keep his work interesting, he never settles on one particular theme or subject and thus his images are always new and unexpected. Senatore is just as comfortable working with non-objective imagery as he is representational imagery. He constantly invents new devices for breaking up the surface of his paintings. In some works he actually paints the same image across two canvases with a space in between. This and other formal devices make Senatore's work consistently vibrant and surprising.