Joey Brock

Dallas, TX

Joey Brock is a Contemporary Mixed Media Artist, who is redefining the medium of photography, textile art and contemporary craft with his intricate and cultural commentary work. By weaving together diverse materials, his work lowers the barriers to understanding the multifaceted human experience, allowing viewers to visualize the nuanced struggles, resilience, and growth that define all people. The process of creating Brock’s art is labor- intensive, as he incorporates hand-stitched and mixed media techniques, drawing on the rich history of quilting in America. Stitching is an integral part of his work and the viewer can see the DNA from Brock’s fashion merchandising background. The quilting reference, symbolic of our American patchwork of cultures, all of which delineate the hard-worn scars of our histories and the healing within. Quilting for him, is as kinetic as a visual manifestation of this tension. Brock’s first memories of quilting began weaving through his childhood thanks to his Grandmother’s and great-aunts’ ritual union with fabrics on the family farm. By utilizing these techniques, Brock seeks to imbue each piece with a sense of warmth and humanity, as well as to signify the importance of often- overlooked artistic traditions. His goal is to create visual narratives that explore the complex relationships between people and places, to challenge the viewer to question their own perceptions of the world around them. 

Brock earned his degree in Fashion Merchandising from Bauder College in 1988. His work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts / LHUCA, The Delaware Contemporary, the Meadows Gallery – University of Texas at Tyler, AMoA Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial 600 and Northpark Center in Dallas as well as numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries across the nation. In 2022, his work was selected by juror Lauren R. O’Connell, curator of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art for New American Paintings, Issue 156 as well as in 2024, Issue 174 by juror Anita N. Bateman, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX. In 2025 he was awarded ‘Best of Show’ Emerging Artist, Main Street Art Fair, Fort Worth, TX. His work has been featured twice on the digital billboard of the Pendry West Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Brock currently resides in Dallas, Texas.