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Josh Dorman
"A few years ago, I began collecting old topographical maps and drawing on top of them with pen and colored inks . I also became obsessed with the book Art Forms in Nature by 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel. The exquisite lines of the topography and the amorphous quality of Haeckel’s microscopic creatures have entered the imagined landscape world of my paintings. Forms are eluding gravity, taking to the air, swimming, dissolving in the atmosphere. I have no interest in interpreting my dreams and I don’t attempt to paint images from my dreams. But if the process of placing color next to color takes on that wondrous, warped, absolute logic of the dream-state, and a believable world grows, then I can experience the painting as a genuine surprise. I always think Georges Braque said it best, 'There is only one thing in art that has value: that which one cannot explain.'"
Josh Dorman was born near Baltimore in 1966. He has shown his work at 55 Mercer Gallery in New York City, Elena Zang in Woodstock, Galerie Francoise in Baltimore and in various group shows. His shows have been reviewed in Modern Painters, The New Republic, and Review Magazine, and his series of ledger drawings was reproduced in the Spring 2001 issue of Post Road. His work can be seen any time in the flat files at Pierogi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn or on line. He lives in Windsor Terrace with his wife, writer Nelly Reifler, and welcomes visitors to his waterfront studio in Red Hook. Images © Josh Dorman |
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