Art is forged by the artist in the furnace of personal experience and human history. Fabricated in the present with an eye to the past, the artwork projects itself into the future. In this manner, art provides the viewer with an opportunity to take part in a discourse outside of time and space and brings to bear not only the experience and knowledge of the artist but that of the viewer as well. Thoughts, feelings, experiences, recollections of the artist and the viewer intermingle, coalesce and tangle with one another. In such a process the viewer discovers something they already knew but were unaware of, or perhaps simply something completely new and novel. Regardless, the end effect is that the artwork has altered the viewers perception of the world or perhaps even raised their consciousness.
Biography
Joshua Hoskins grew up in southern California, just south of Los Angeles. He attended art school at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received a Bachelors in Fine Art. His studio is located in Berlin, Germany. Joshua Hoskins regularly sells his work at the Berlin Art Market at the Museum Insel. His last exhibition was at BAAM #11 and he will be having a solo show for the month of August opening on August 1st in Steinhöfel, Brandenburg LOS at Thierbachshof.