JOSH DORMAN
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Dorman describes his works, "I want to know how the past lives in the present. When I use cut-outs from old books and maps, I’m aware that their meaning is from another time period, so that meaning therefore lives in an altered way in a contemporary context. What does this engraving of the gears of a cotton gin mean to us now? And what happens in our eyes and minds when it’s paired with the spiral forms from a diagram of the cell structure of the cotton plant? What does an 1890 map fragment mean in a world where we have GPS? These physical paper artifacts are folded into who we are now, yet we are forgetting our connection to them. I am constantly foraging for peculiar old books—like a hunter, or a botanist. I find disused knowledge in diagrams, charts, engravings, antique textbooks. Part of my goal is to make people see the value of old printed imagery, which depended for its existence on the filter of a human mind and hand, rather than on the camera lens.
PRESS RELEASE 2019 | ARTIST STATEMENT & CV
Josh Dorman
Napping at the Altar of the Gods, 2012-2022, ink, acrylic, antique collage, resin on panel, 76x62 in., Inquire for Price
Josh Dorman, Emerald Pool, 2018, ink, acrylic, antique collage, resin on panel, 12x12 in., $3,000
Josh Dorman, Nile Story, 2021, ink, acrylic, antique collage, resin on panel, 12x16 in., $3,000
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Josh Dorman, Dromedary, 2010, ink, acrylic, antique collage, resin on panel, 9x12 in., $2,200
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Josh Dorman,
Ode to Joy,
mixed media on panel,
40x40 in., Inquire for Price
Josh Dorman,
The Lemon Of Pink,
mixed media on panel,
20x30 in., SOLD
Josh Dorman,
Cardinal, 2014,
ink, acrylic, antique paper on, wood panel,
18x18 in.,
$5,500
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Josh Dorman,
Mountain Hydra, 2014,
ink, acrylic, antique paper on, wood panel,
24x18 in.,
$6,500
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Josh Dorman,
Central Well, 2014,
ink, acrylic, antique paper on, wood panel,
10x22 in.,
$3,800
Josh Dorman,
Spaghetti Western,
resin, ink, acrylic, antique paper, on wood panel,
12x9 in.,
$2,000
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Josh Dorman,
Lessons in Pink,
resin, ink, acrylic, antique paper, on wood panel,
12x12 in.,
$2,500
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