Born in Israel in 1944, Nathan Slate Joseph studied engineering and spent the summers of his youth on air force bases as an air cadet. He left Israel for New York in 1961 and received an informal art education through interaction with such luminaries as John Chamberlain and Larry Rivers. It was during a trip to Mexico in the 1970s that Joseph began to work with his characteristically vivid color palette. In 1982, Joseph switched from making representational figures on canvas to abstract compositions of galvanized steel.
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