Inspired by his roots in the American Great Plains, Joe Andoe is admired for his minimal landscapes and idealized depictions of horses, dogs, deer, buffalo, wolves and flowers. Joe Andoe was born in 1955 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Andoe comes from a farming family and is part Cherokee. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He has lived in New York City since 1985. His simple and elegant images of animals and landscapes and soulful sensitivity of his interpretation of his subjects still refer to his roots in the Great Plains.

Andoe's Iris prints are based upon his oil paintings, which are created using an original reductive technique. A heavy, coarse-weave canvas is first primed with white gesso, then covered entirely ...