About JOSH
Artist statement
My work is based on formal continuities that are consistent throughout each body of work, informing the creative evolution from painting to painting. This creates a visual language that synthesizes various types of painting such as monochromatic painting, painting through materiality, abstraction, and process based art. By taking these creative risks I play with the idea of perception—how we understand painting, how it is experienced, how it evolves over time, and how the continuous synthesis of various pictorial languages can stimulate an inquisitive practice.
Bio
Josh Reyes is an artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. Josh received his BFA in painting and drawing at the University of North Texas in 2017 and received his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffbeger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Josh was awarded two postgraduate residences at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He was also the recipient of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting Graduate scholarship in 2018. Reyes was born and raised in Texas, having lived in El Paso, San Antonio, Dallas, and Denton.