My work creates unexpected moments of precariousness. I use metallic, iridescent, and fluorescent acrylics, textures that lift the paint from the canvas, and a variety of industrial plastics which add dimensionality to the surfaces. I create work which collapses clear distinctions via aufhebung, the negation of negation: both painting and sculpture, both presence and absence, both expectation and result. The goal is the substantiation of imagination: fooling the eye into seeing things it never imagined could exist, and then going beyond to ask for willing participation in a different way of seeing the world around us, externally and internally.
- Josh Stein
- 61cm
- 46
- Metallic and fluorescent acrylics on canvas board
- 2023
- abstract, fluorescent, acrylic, canvas board, metallic
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