A solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist,Joshua Petker. The new body of work continues the artist's ongoing exploration of color abstraction, negative space, and the human form.
Strongly reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's ethereal portraits from the turn of the 20th century, Joshua Petker consci... Read more
A solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist,Joshua Petker. The new body of work continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of color abstraction, negative space, and the human form.
Strongly reminiscent of Gustav Klimt’s ethereal portraits from the turn of the 20th century, Joshua Petker consciously continues the art historical practice of employing the male gaze to explore the nuance of human emotion through the female form. Petker suspends his female figures between intense color fields and quiet spaces of monochrome, liberating them from the confines of everyday life and setting them free in a color-laden world of his own imagination. InWe’re Not As Colorful As We Think We Are, Petker explores the way humans use color to manipulate their physical appearance in order to transcend their reality. People use color with makeup to enhance their beauty, men use war paint to mark their transformation into warriors, shamans use body paint to demarcate the transition from body into spirit. Through these new works, Petker’s colors expose the desire for human metamorphosis all the while reminding us that underneath the layers of color, we are more alike then we may think. The exhibition will be comprised partly of mixed media on canvas (acrylic, gouache and ink)
