Joe Caruso
Walking Among the Trees
1. Eucalyptus 2, 2025, monoprint on tarlatan, with hand stitching, embroidery, handmade paper on jute, 49.75 x 26.50 inches, $1200.00
2. Eucalyptus, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
3. Paradise, 2025, monotype on teabag paper, 85 x 14 inches, $1700.00
4. In the Breeze, 2024 , monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
5. Day, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
6. Purple Margarita, 2024, two layered monotype collage on gauze and cotton with handmade paper and hand stitching, 67.5 x 29 inches, $1600.00
7. Ruby Red, 2024, two layered monotype collage on gauze and cotton with handmade paper and hand stitching, 67.5 x 29.5 inches, $1600.00
8. Afternoon Breeze, 2024, two layered monotype collage on gauze and cotton with handmade paper and hand stitching, 65 x 30.5 inches, $1600.00
9. Introspection, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
10. Turmoil, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
11. Lavender, 2024, monotype on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
12. Dieffenbachia 2, 2025, monoprint collage on tarlatan with hand stitching on jute, 33 x 37 inches, $950.00
13. Dieffenbachia, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
14. Palm and Rhododendron, 2025, monotype on jute, 82 x 30 inches, $850.00
15. Nefertiti’s Necklace 1, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
16. Beneath the Quiet, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
17. Palm Fugue, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
18. Cartography of Light, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
19. On Blue, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
20. Be My Sunshine, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
21. “Hope” is the thing with feathers, 2024, monotype on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
22. Quiet Encounter, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
23. Botanicos, 2024, monoprints on handmade paper, 5 x 3 inches, Portfolio with 7 pre-selected prints (A-J) , $75.00 per portfolio
24. Botanicos, 2024, monoprints on handmade paper, 5 x 3 inches, Prints (A-T), $20.00 each
25. Palm 2, 2025, monoprint on tarlatan with hand stitching, embroidery, dried eucalyptus on jute, 41.50 x 27 inches, $1200.00
26. Palm, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
27. Of Ferns and Hearts, 2024, monotype on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
28. Motion in Red, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
29. Unapologetically Red, 2024, monoprint on handmade paper, 14 x 11 inches, $250.00
30. Boston Fern and Bird of Paradise, 2025, monotype on jute, 83 x 27 inches, $850.00
Joe Caruso: Walking Among the Trees
The title of this exhibition comes from a poem by Mary Oliver, “When I Am Among the Trees” in which she reminds us to pay more attention to the natural world, to slow down, and to enjoy the emotional and spiritual renewal that nature provides.
During the month of December 2024, Joe Caruso completed an artist residency at La Ceiba Grafica, a well-known printmaking center located in the rural town of La Orduna, Mexico. Caruso shared space with other artists in an historic hacienda surrounded by lush tropical trees and plants including papyrus, kozo, palm, Spanish moss, and many others.
Free from distraction, Caruso walked daily among the trees, collecting plant samples from the smallest twigs and clovers to enormous rhododendron leaves, seeing the beauty and possibilities of each. They became the subject matter of the more than 30 monoprints in this exhibition: subtle meditations on texture, form, memory, and presence.
Most are on hand-made paper. However, some of Caruso’s pieces are printed on jute, gauze, tea-bag paper and tarlatan. Each material is selected for the way it engages in a tactile exchange with the natural forms pressed onto it.
The prints are a kind of visual journal, a record of Caruso’s experience at La Ceiba, of his attention to and dialogue with nature’s forms and to its beauty and grace. They are not declarations, but offerings to the viewer, moments held gently in hand and then passed on.
In these works, Caruso reminds us that beauty is not rare or remote – it is present all around us, waiting in the texture of a leaf or even in the smallest twig. His prints ask us to observe more closely, to trust our own senses, and to find meaning in quiet, unassuming details; if we are willing to look!
…Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile” the light flows from their branches. And they call again, It’s simple,” they say, “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver
Joe Caruso Bio
Joe Caruso is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Boston. Inspired by the ancient world, by contemporary issues and by nature, he has shown his work at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Art Museum of the University of New Hampshire, the Area Code Art Fair, the Boston International Fine Art Show, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, N.H. and many galleries throughout Massachusetts including Storefront Art Projects, HallSpace, Galatea Fine Art, FPAC Gallery, the Mosesian Center, 555 Gallery and many others.
During the past two years, Caruso worked with master printmaker, Carolina Parra, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and, in February, Caruso had a solo show of his monoprints at Galeria Amarillo 78 in San Miguel. He recently returned from Tusa, Sicily, where he participated in an artist residency at the Officina Stamperia del Notaio; there, he worked on a series of prints of the volcanic landscape of Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands.
Joe Caruso is a former educator, he holds a BS degree from Boston University and an MA and Doctor of Education degree from Columbia University. He is also a published author, a gardener and an Argentine tango dancer.