Josh Keyes - USA
Josh Keyes is an American artist based in Portland.
Born in 1969 in Tacoma Washington.
Josh Keyes received his BFA in 1992 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in 1998 from Yale University School of Art.
He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and has work in private and public collections.
Keyes currently lives and works in Portland Oregon.
In this series of paintings the artist explores the interaction between the world shaped by human and animal life.
Josh Keyes’ style is reminiscent of the diagrammatic vocabulary found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint an empirical representation of the natural world.
Assembled into this virtual stage set are references to contemporary events along with images and themes from his personal mythology.
Josh Keyes’ work is a hybrid of eco surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth’s future.