Working at the interlocution of art and music the work of Joan van Barneveld is interdisciplinary in nature. Throughout his oeuvre, the act of painting embodies the abstraction of his music. By creating paintings akin to over exposed images, Van Barneveld minimizes both the evidence of painterly gestures and obscures the subject matter in his work. As a result, the images now embody almost expressionless yet subliminal sensations.