This abstract collage piece features a bold, purple-toned background that contrasts with the collage elements in shades of white, black, and purple. The visually striking composition incorporates a mix of geometric shapes, including sharp angles and overlapping fragments, which create a dynamic and fragmented effect. The artist's distinctive style is evident in the layered and textured application of materials, blending photographic elements with gestural brush strokes. This work reflects the artist's exploration of the boundary between abstraction and representation, inviting the viewer to engage with its multifaceted visual language. ...
Having grown up with a darkroom in the basement of his family home, Josh Brand has always experimented with film and analogue manipulation techniques. After studying in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brand was employed as a commercial printer in New York, where he was again able to use the darkroom facilities, after-hours, to conduct further experiments. Contrastingly, Brand employs the exacting processes of photographic development to create works that are abstracted and hold an element of randomness in their production. Despite their synonymity with photography, Brand’s fragmentary images are made without the use of a camera, and are purely the result of obstructing light from reaching certain areas of a photosensitive surface, using materials such as cardboard and paper. Brand’s work represents a return to analogue in order to re-examine and reinvent its properties, comparable to that of William Basinski’s sound works. ...
