Joe Lichtenstein moves between worlds—painting, theatre, animation—each a doorway into the same strange place. His work flickers between opposites: stillness and motion, solitude and connection, grief and joy. A frozen moment shifts. The inanimate breathes. Shadows move beneath the surface.

Within the darkness, there is light—color, movement, the thrill of something breaking through. Whether on canvas, on stage, or in stop-motion, Lichtenstein searches for the place where stillness turns to motion, where the unconscious speaks.

“Where does movement end and stillness begin? I want to find it.”