I am a multi-disciplinary assemblage artist who works in found, thrifted, and donated materials. Typically I make use of textiles that have been manipulated through handiwork or piecework combined with what may be called kitsch, or readily available media and objects to decontextualize and create new avenues of interpretation. Sometimes I recreate those mass produced objects using these methods,
exploring the intersection of the mass-produced object, the handmade, the domestic, and the fine art space.
Due to the nature of my process this creates work that is regionally specific, imbued with a kind of local history. The ideas I’m interested in exploring like all individual histories end up being connected to the landscape that surrounds them.
One of those narratives is the use of materials that have been attained through second hand stores or from personal collections, along with the use and disruption of traditional crafts coincides with how historically in queer and other minority communities, we create new identities, new families, and new realities out of what is available to us.
Joseph spent his childhood in the southern United States daydreaming about pop stars and male teenage heart throbs. His adolescence in the Midwest, where he experimented with make up, vintage clothing, shoplifting, and skipping school. After becoming an adult he realized the real world had very little to offer so he returned to school earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Arts.
He now resides in Savannah Georgia where he is creating new work and contemplating where he will earn his MFA.
exploring the intersection of the mass-produced object, the handmade, the domestic, and the fine art space.
Due to the nature of my process this creates work that is regionally specific, imbued with a kind of local history. The ideas I’m interested in exploring like all individual histories end up being connected to the landscape that surrounds them.
One of those narratives is the use of materials that have been attained through second hand stores or from personal collections, along with the use and disruption of traditional crafts coincides with how historically in queer and other minority communities, we create new identities, new families, and new realities out of what is available to us.
Joseph spent his childhood in the southern United States daydreaming about pop stars and male teenage heart throbs. His adolescence in the Midwest, where he experimented with make up, vintage clothing, shoplifting, and skipping school. After becoming an adult he realized the real world had very little to offer so he returned to school earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Arts.
He now resides in Savannah Georgia where he is creating new work and contemplating where he will earn his MFA.
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