Life & Work with Joseph Liberti

Today we’d like to introduce you to Joseph Liberti.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I’m Joseph Liberti, artist, jazz musician, octogenarian optimist, nature lover and a master of change. The first half century of my life I devoted my creative energies to various businesses as entrepreneur and as a corporate trainer. In my 60’s I started studying music and at age 70 became a professional musician and composer and enjoyed performing jazz gigs and themed concerts. The covid pandemic and illness brought my music career to a halt. It was time for another change.

Digital art became a passion. I had starting snapping photos while hiking as a way to busy myself and deal with the loss of my beloved canine hiking partner Eddie. I learned I did not want to be a photographer but as I delved into the world of modern photo editing software I became fascinated with digital art. Soon I developed techniques for creating digital college art. My art has been exhibited in local galleries including Kreuser Gallery, Surface Gallery, and G44 in Colorado Springs, and also earned me Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards in juried online competitions. Camelback Gallery, an online gallery headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. twice gave me Artist of the Month award in 2022.

Yet I was not fulfilled. I just had to stop. I didn’t want to do another piece of digital collage. So at the age of 84 I started to teach myself digital abstract painting. A little less than a year later I am creating paintings that I love, people ar starting to buy my art again and I have a studio show and sale coming up on May 18th.

But that is not all. My longing for music became an itch that had to be scratched. Three months ago I heard a music performance that was a demonstration of an electronic wind instrument. It looks as though a saxophone and a computer had a child. It is capable of hundreds of sounds and it totally captured me. I have learned how to play it and am practicing and preparing for a future concert. Sio here I am at nearly 86 years launching projects in both visual and performance art. vLife is exciting!

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been said that the only person who likes change is a baby with a wet diaper. Change is chaos. Change almost always comes with a radical discontinuance of life – of the friendly and the familiar and the comfortable. Wether it is brought about by sickness or elements beyond our control or it is to answer our internal voice, change can be a heartache. So the difficulties can be physical , financial and emotional. I have had to learn to dance with change and it helps if it can be viewed as an adventure instead of a punishment.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
A passion for living, a reverence for nature and a love of music are things that motivate me and shape my art. Some of my artworks are abstract impressions of scenes from Colorado nature and others are improvisations that use vivid shapes, color and light. I create my art and my jazz music in much the same way – spontaneously, guided, by my intuition.

My art and my music are vivd, passionate and inspiring.

I craft my art using a pen table, a computer and sophisticated eating software. Commercial printers produce my art printed on various substrates including textured paper, canvass and metal.

I craft my music using an electronic wind instrument playing synthesized sounds. I favor music that is lyrical but is expressed with improvised melodies, rhythms and sounds.

What sets my art and my music apart is the combination of beauty, freedom and possibility. My goal is to inspire you, to evoke experience and spark your imagination.

We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
What most people who know me as an artist don’t know is that I am shy and introverted. I have always had to put myself out in public to express myself in my career and some see that as extroverted. But I need to retreat to recharge myself . My favorite retreat is the time I spend in the comfortable and rejuvenating presence of nature.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://josephliberti.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/flutedaddy
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/josephliberti