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The BIOS Environmental ART GALLERY Environmental Artists
Josh Keyes is a Northern California painter and sculptor whose work has been shown nationwide. Keyes was born on August 17, 1969 in Tacoma, Washington. Josh earned a bachelor's degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master's degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University. His work has been published in numerous publications, and exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and New York. My intention is to create work that asks questions about the implications of urban sprawl and its impact on the environment. I am interested in creating psychological narratives set in closed systems that express the behavior and interaction between humans and animals. The dystopian model provides a dynamic playing field where I can explore the possible future effects that human activity might have on ecosystems, human populations and the geography of the earth. My work often contains a hybridization of concepts and imagery that express global concerns about ecological, political, and militarism issues. I try to create work that fuses my personal mythology and imagery with these concerns. The result is a continuous and evolving pattern of fragmented imagery that slowly unfolds and folds like a patchwork quilt. The work functions for me as a record of both my personal history and interpretation of events in the world.
The Bios Environmental Art Gallery Coming soon to 72 Railroad Street New Milford CT 06776 |
