Joshua Stringer+
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Joshua Stringer Statement My minimal, mixed media work on paper reflects an interest in silence and contemplation. The visual languages I use include found images and materials as well as subtle gestural brushstrokes and delicately drawn images. Humility and obscurity are important qualities in the imagery I choose as I seek to create relationships that will compel one to quiet reflection. Cultivating a greater sense of awareness and a more intimate relationship with our environment is a goal of my work. In the way a Zen koan uses language to subvert the logic of language and bring about a new experience of reality, with my work I am using the language of images in a way that resists narrative and logic in order to lead us to a state of silence and reflection, where we may find something of the eternal in the temporal. BIO I am an artist living in Salem, Oregon. My minimalist mixed media work on paper reflects an interest in contemplation and silence. I received a BFA in studio art from Southern Oregon University and am currently working on a Master’s degree in theology. I have shown my art in galleries throughout Oregon as well as in California and New Hampshire. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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