{"id":1292099,"date":"2017-07-06T06:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T05:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=1292099"},"modified":"2017-06-19T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:10:43","slug":"joshua-flint-assemblages-paint-found-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/joshua-flint-assemblages-paint-found-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Flint: Assemblages of Found Imagery and Gestural Marks in Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joshua Flint’s painting ‘The Guest’ was shortlisted for\u00a0this year’s Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. The painting depicts a suited man sat with his cane while a mountain seems to hover in front of him, while gestural marks create a painterly vignette\u00a0on the edges of the composition. \u00a0It is clear that the figure is painted from an old black and white photo, while the abstract elements\u00a0and clashing motifs are layered over the top, always in response to what has been painted before. The work is a surrealist collage in oil paint, with the same mysticism and ambiguity. I wanted to ask Joshua Flint what exactly is he searching for in his paintings.<\/h5>\n
\"'The<\/a>
‘The Guest’
Joshua Flint
Oil on wood panel, 36″ x 36″, 2016 (Private Collection, USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa: Who is \u2018The Guest\u2019 that the title of your painting refers to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: That is a good question . . . and I don\u2019t know the answer. My paintings don\u2019t provide answers in a pedagogical sense, as if I\u2019ve learned something and am showing that in my work. When the painting is as much a mystery to me as to anyone else that\u2019s when I call it completed. \u00a0I feel it has to arrive at that place where I\u2019m left guessing or wondering about what is going on in the image. I\u2019m very fond of the notion of the painting passing through the artist and then it becoming something else separate that can stand alone in the end.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa: How do you develop the ideas for your paintings?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: We live in a sea of images with viral videos, memes, and the copious amounts of social networking that everyone does. \u00a0Digital technology has made time travel possible. \u00a0Anyone can view photos or videos throughout recorded history in an instant. \u00a0All of it can be pretty chaotic but I enjoy these visual floods. \u00a0I\u2019m a visual person (and learner) so when I drop my boat into those running waters to search for images it always turns up something unexpected. \u00a0The found image holds unbelievable potential, in part because it contains just that: \u2018the unexpected.\u2019 \u00a0I\u2019m always seeking photos to add to my organized collections. These collections are reservoirs for constructing the paintings, acting as a kind of scaffolding to layer my ideas on top of. \u00a0I find them all over: online public archives, digitized museum archives, through social media platforms, in vintage shops, from family members, simply wherever I happen to find them. \u00a0At times, this research can be directed towards a clear subject matter or I just examine these resources without any intention. \u00a0If something resonates then I\u2019ll take it and file it away or start to work with it. \u00a0T.S. Eliot called this phase \u2018critical labor,\u2019 the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, connecting, and testing imagery. I\u2019m always asking myself why a certain image stays with me, it\u2019s like I\u2019ve unearthed unrealized potential, which is really exciting.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'The<\/a>
‘The Banquet’
Joshua Flint
Oil on canvas, 48″ x 60″, 2015 (Private Collection, Colecci\u00f3n Solo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa: How much of the painting process is planned and how much of it is intuitive?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: Edgar Degas said, \u201c A picture is something that requires as much trickery, malice, and vice as the perpetration of a crime.\u201d \u00a0I interpret this as doing whatever is necessary to bring an idea to life, taking it from the conceptual into the real, which certainly is my method.<\/em><\/p>\n

The initial stages of my creative process can take on many shapes. \u00a0I scribble small thumbnail drawings on post it notes, on scraps of paper, or in a sketchbook on a regular basis. \u00a0These rough scribbles find their way on to the walls of my studio for future paintings. \u00a0After looking at my archives of images I may find what I need or I might have to do some more looking. \u00a0At this point I\u2019ll make a very rough digital collage to get the idea moving, it could be the preliminary idea of the entire composition or I\u2019ll work with one element, altering and expanding on it. While I\u2019m working digitally I\u2019ll produce studies and drawings as I\u2019m thinking through various aspects of the design. \u00a0I go to studies when I need to familiarize myself with the subject matter. There are no parameters on the type of subject matter that populates my paintings, so I\u2019m often painting or drawing something I haven\u2019t before.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'Angels<\/a>
‘Angels With Dirty Faces’
Joshua Flint
Oil on canvas, 60″ x 72″, 2016 (Courtesy of the Artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Traditional tools like gouache, watercolor, acrylic, or any type of dry media will be used for these sketches.<\/em><\/p>\n

On the final surface I\u2019ll use oil paint on wood, canvas, or linen. Often employing a muted or limited palette, my paintings are meant to be evocative not real. \u00a0Because of this viewers often remark that my paintings are dreamlike, which is a quality I enjoy. If I run into problems when working on the oil painting, which is regularly, I\u2019ll photograph the piece and take it back into the computer to test new elements.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is nothing smooth and consistent with my approach. \u00a0\u00a0Many times if I have the starting point of an idea I\u2019ll go right to canvas, skipping all the above processes, and let the act of painting take over, guiding me along the way. Ultimately, I\u2019m looking for fluidity in my approach so I stay connected to the original reasons behind a painting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa: Can you tell us a bit about how you work? Do you have several works on the go at any one time, how often do you paint and how long does and painting usually take to finish?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: Usually I have two to three main paintings that I\u2019m focusing on and a couple of smaller ones that occupy my main focus. \u00a0While those are being completed I\u2019ll produce drawings and small studies for future works. \u00a0Then there are always a couple paintings I\u2019ve abandoned for the moment, or in some cases, months. \u00a0These paintings sit around the studio unresolved until I have an idea that brings them in a new direction. \u00a0Often they end up being developed in an unexpected way, which I couldn\u2019t have planned in the beginning. \u00a0They can be some of my favorite works as that struggle teaches me about myself, my ideas, my failings, taking risks, and finding honesty in the work. \u00a0As painful as it can be I enjoy the process.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'The<\/a>
‘The White Mountain’
Joshua Flint
Oil on wood panel, 24″ x 24″, 2017 (Private Collection, UK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa: What is your artistic background?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: I got a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco focusing on Illustration and sort of minoring in painting. \u00a0I thought painting would come to me later in life but those doors opened up soon after I left school. \u00a0I\u2019ve furthered my education by attending workshops with Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, and a few in Shanghai, China at the China Academy of Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa: You also teach art. How does teaching influence your own painting practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: It is constant reminder of the importance of play and how taking risks is where you find new terrain.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'The<\/a>
‘The Gown’
Joshua Flint
Oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″, 2017 (Courtesy of the Artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa: How do you work with the oil paint? Do you apply lots of layers? Do you use any mediums, and how do you select your colours?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: Process is paramount to me and showing that to an audience adds to the integrity of a piece. I find it fascinating when one can see the first layers to the last all intermingling on the surface of the canvas. So yes, there are usually plenty of layers. \u00a0I work very directly with the paint to develop (or redevelop) an area so I want all the paint in the place I\u2019m working to be open. I don\u2019t scumble or use glazes to push and pull the paint. \u00a0I keep my palette very simple usually around 12-13 colors and don\u2019t incorporate any mediums. \u00a0I use Gamsol as a thinner for my paint and for cleaning up. \u00a0As you might discern at this point, I don\u2019t follow any methodology for my set up or painting approach when it comes to the materials. I adjust my process as needed based on how best\u00a0to execute the idea.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'Pinwheel'<\/a>
‘Pinwheel’
Joshua Flint
Oil on wood panel, 24″ x 30″, 2017 (Courtesy of the Artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa: Where do you find inspiration for your paintings?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: My interests in literature, neuroscience, archeology, environmental issues, the history of painting, and, of course, my own observations of the world, tend to lend themselves to the inspirations behind my paintings. \u00a0I often find that personal experience and one’s interests will always work their way into the making of a painting. \u00a0The inclusion of these themes as subject matter will sometimes be overt and other times more subtle, but it’s there, regardless. There is the old adage that all painting is autobiographical and to some extent I think that is true.<\/em><\/p>\n

Artistically speaking, I\u2019ve got many other sources of inspiration such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko, Joseph Cornell, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper. Ask me on another day and I\u2019d probably choose a much different list.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'It's<\/a>
‘It’s Always Warmer In The Winter’
Joshua Flint
Oil on wood panel, 30″ x 40″, 2015 (Private Collection, Colecci\u00f3n Solo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n

Lisa: What are you working on at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua: Currently, I have two solo shows in the Fall. \u00a0The first show is in October at the Seager Gray Gallery<\/a> in the San Francisco Bay Area and the second one is at Robert Lange Studios<\/a> in Charleston, South Carolina during the month of November. \u00a0The exhibitions will feature all new work that I am in the midst of developing. \u00a0Broadly speaking the first show is focusing more on figures while the latter will see figures take a secondary role to environments or spaces.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa: Where online or in the flesh can we view more of your work?<\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0My website: www.joshuaflint.com<\/a>. \u00a0For regular updates, studio shots, and works in progress you can follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com\/studioflint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"'Backdrop'<\/a><\/dt>\n

‘Backdrop’
\nJoshua Flint
\nOil on wood panel, 24″ x 24″, 2016 (Private Collection, USA)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Header Image: ‘The Volunteers’ by Joshua Flint, Oil on wood panel, 30″ x 40″, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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