Nick Cernak

I’ve been dig­ging paint­ings by Josh Keyes lately. You can check out more at JoshKeyes.net

“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.

Josh Keyes was born in Tacoma, Wash­ing­ton. He received a BFA in 1992 from the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chicago and an MFA in 1998 from Yale Uni­ver­sity. Keyes cur­rently lives and works in Port­land Oregon.”