Josh Meier
My recent practice comprises painting, drawing, and ceramics.
I paint from observation of handmade scenes constructed from
clay, plastics, and various ubiquitous commercial materials.
Each work is a translation of the model’s surface and shares a
likeness to its subject while bearing its own agency. This process,
both depiction and invention, requires many hours of looking, and
I am interested in the mutable exchanges that take place between
me, the object, and the painting over time. I want the figures in
the work to hum with a flamboyant glow, hopefully mirroring the
viewer’s experience of looking. The goal is for the paintings to offer
a range of readings at the same time: illusion with decoration,
armor with vulnerability, muteness with liveliness, and autonomy
with the evaporation of the self.
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