Works by Joshua Reiman
February 4-26, 2022
Central Gallery
Artist Statement
Joshua Reiman is a sculptor and filmmaker. His films deal with themes of exploration, artistic expression, race, nature, and contextual inquiry. His short films offer an array of lush landscapes with characters that guide audiences through layered conceptual ideas about art, history, and popular culture.
Within a spatial sculptural practice, I seek to produce thoughtful physical objects, installations, and cinematic experiences that instigate reflective moments for an audience. I work with themes of personal and cultural identity through conceptual and material inquiry. I assess how fictional or historical narratives can frame or scaffold an artwork.
Through experiential learning, my practice stands at a crossroads of theatrical simulation and challenging the assumptions imbued within stereotypes embedded within everyday life. I often use iconic figures from art, history, and politics within to anchor new narratives at the junction of absurdity, where reality and fiction meet. My work involves transforming realities and magical realism into a visual hybridization or synthesis of what is real, fake and imagined.
Joshua Reiman’s Reading List
Books in relation to works in the exhibition:
On Time and Water
by Andri Snær Magnason, 2019
Haraldsdóttir (Ísland: To Place)
By Roni Horn, 1996
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By Edmund Burke, 1757
The Importance of Being Iceland, Travel Essays in Art
By Eileen Myles, 2009
Documents of Contemporary Art: The Sublime
Edited by Simon Morley, 2010
Weatherbeaten, Winslow Homer and Maine
Edited by Thomas A. Denenberg; With essays by Kenyon Bolton, Erica E. Hirshler, James F. O'Gorman, and Marc Simpson, 2012
Landscapes of Fear
By Yi-Fu Tuan, 2013
The Critique of Judgment
By Immanuel Kant, 1790
While We've Still Got Feet
By David Budbill, 2005