Josh Keyes
{{short description|American contemporary artist (born 1969)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Josh Keyes
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|08|17}}
| birth_place = Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
| alma_mater = School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Yale University
| spouse = Lisa Ericson
}}
Josh Keyes (born 1969){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bpUAAAAMAAJ|title=New American Paintings|date=2007|publisher=Open Studios Press|pages=97|language=en}} is an American contemporary artist who makes paintings and prints. He is known for his "eco-surrealist" painting style and images of graffitied covered wilderness.{{Cite web|date=August 3, 2017|title=Preview: Josh Keyes Marks His First Solo Show in LA in A Decade with "Implosion"|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/preview-josh-keyes-marks-his-first-solo-show-in-la-in-a-decade-with-implosion/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Juxtapoz Magazine|language=en-gb}}{{Cite web|date=2017-08-03|title=New 'Eco-Surrealist' Paintings by Josh Keyes Observe a Post-Human World|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/new-eco-surrealist-paintings-by-josh-keyes/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Colossal|language=en}} He is based in Portland, Oregon, and previously lived in Oakland, California.{{Cite web|date=2010-11-10|title=Art review: Constructed worlds and narrative in Josh Keyes' paintings|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2010/11/10/art-review-constructed-worlds-and-narrative-in-josh-keyes-paintings/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Denver Post|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=|date=14 January 2007|title=Studio Visit: Josh Keyes|url=http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?Itemid=92&id=474&option=com_content&task=view|access-date=2021-12-31|website=fecalface.com|language=en-gb}}
Biography
Josh Keyes was born on August 17, 1969, in Tacoma, Washington.
Keyes has a bachelor's degree (1992) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a master's degree (1998) in painting and printmaking from Yale University.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-17|title=Four-Artist Show Animalia. Corey Helford Gallery. Los Angeles|url=https://en.martincid.com/2021/08/17/four-artist-show-animalia-corey-helford-gallery-los-angeles/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Martin Cid Magazine|language=en-US}}
Work
Keyes' work has been described as "a satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and encroach on our rural surroundings."[http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/josh-keyes-the-art-of-nature/2108 Environmental Graffiti - Josh Keyes: The Art of Nature] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016022211/http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/josh-keyes-the-art-of-nature/2108|date=2008-10-16}}
His painting style often includes narrative and the illusion of constructed worlds. Keyes' style is reminiscent of the diagrammatic vocabulary found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint an empirical representation of the natural world. Assembled into this virtual stage set are references to contemporary events along with images and themes from his personal mythology.
His work is a hybrid of eco-surrealism and dystopia that express a concern and anxiety for our time and the Earth's future.{{Cite web|date=2017-01-18|title=Speculative Paintings of a Graffiti-Covered Earth by Josh Keyes|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/01/graffiti-covered-earth-josh-keyes/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Colossal|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Chaisson|first=Clara|date=May 11, 2017|title=In These Paintings, the Earth Gets Tagged Out|url=https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/these-paintings-earth-gets-tagged-out|access-date=2021-12-31|website=NRDC|language=en}}
Keyes' public mural Treadmill (2006), is painted on the side of the Locust Street Garage in Walnut Creek, California.{{Cite web|date=2009-09-12|title=Environmental Art at Swarm Gallery, San Francisco|url=https://inhabitat.com/swarm-gallery-vaughn-bell-and-josh-keyes/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Inhabitat|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=May 15, 2013|title=Calendar, Best of the Walnut Creek Journal|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/05/15/calendar-best-of-the-walnut-creek-journal-writer-playwright-poet-donna-kaulkin-book-singing-saturday/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [http://joshkeyes.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.facebook.com/joshkeyes.art/ Facebook Official Page]
- [http://artistaday.com/?p=867/ Feature on Artistaday.com]
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Category:American illustrators
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:Artists from Washington (state)
Category:American contemporary painters
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni