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#memory #painting #surreal
The Soft, Memory-Laden Oil Paintings of Joshua Flint
Migration | oil on wood panel | 30″ x 30″
The oil paintings of Joshua Flint look like depictions of memories when one tries too hard to access the faded thoughts—worn corners, blurred faces, and transposed scenes that don’t quite make sense. Each work has a familiar element that seems to be cast in a dark and foreboding haze like Sandcastles, a dark painting that disguises whether the included children are building or destroying the miniature city that lies before them.
“There is a dynamic interplay between experience and interpretation,” says Flint about his work. “What is remembered isn’t necessarily descriptive of the actual event. Once the experience has passed through our emotional filter we assign meaning to it, changing the actualities. My paintings explore that place in-between a direct translation and the abstract of emotion.”
Flint has a current exhibition titled “The World Between” at Sumter County Gallery of Art in Sumter, South Carolina which continues until January 8, 2016. You can see more of his oil paintings and in-process sketches on his Instagram here. (via Booooooom)
Memory Palace | oil on wood panel | 24″ x 24″
The Banquet | oil on canvas | 48″ x 60″
They Feed the Earth | Oil on Canvas | 48″ x 48″
Mapping a Galaxy | oil on wood panel | 30″ x 30″
Bright Reflections | Oil on Wood | 24″ x 24″
The Wide Arena of Air | oil on wood panel | 36″ x 36″
Sandcastles | oil on canvas | 48″ x 48″
#memory #painting #surreal
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