Mount Horeb - Joseph Yoakum printing Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

but playfully transcend the boundaries of our perceptual habits

Von grauen Zellen

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy

Mount Horeb - Joseph Yoakum printing Billie HolidayIn 1962 at the age of 71, Joseph Elmer Yoakum (circa 18911972) reported having a dream that inspired him to draw. Thereafter the retired veteran began a daily practice and over the next 10 years produced some 2,000 works. Yoakum was born into poverty, had very little schooling, and at an early age left home to join a circus. He wound up working with several circuses, traveling across the United States as well as abroad and becoming intimately familiar