I am a multi-disciplinary assemblage artist who makes use of found or thrifted objects, media, and textiles to create work that has been collaged to decontextualize and create new avenues of interpretation and experience.
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 and piecework coincides with how historically in queer communities we create new identities, new families, and new realities out of what is available to us.
It is in this exploration of where the domestic and fine art space intersect that I’m imagining a new beauty that these things can make.
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 to earn his BFA in the hopes of living his dream of becoming a famous artist. He now resides in Savannah Georgia where he is creating new work, renovating a house, and thinking about where he will earn his MFA.
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 and piecework coincides with how historically in queer communities we create new identities, new families, and new realities out of what is available to us.
It is in this exploration of where the domestic and fine art space intersect that I’m imagining a new beauty that these things can make.
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 to earn his BFA in the hopes of living his dream of becoming a famous artist. He now resides in Savannah Georgia where he is creating new work, renovating a house, and thinking about where he will earn his MFA.
