March 19 – 22
Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building 7th Fl, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI
Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6-8pm
Joshuah Holbrook is a ceramic artist whose work is comprised of abstracting compressed, folded forms to capture an embodied perception and how bodily engagement shapes experience. Working with ceramic, industrial, and fiber materials, Holbrook’s intrigue is in precarity, the constant search of form through a visceral feeling of dissatisfaction and awkwardness. Working intuitively is a vital part of Holbrook’s process through engaging in pre-reflective experience or working without thinking through, using a half-knowledge where perception and action are intertwined. Where there is a battle between the will and the body, self-image and raw impulse, a confrontation of duality through multiple gestures that takes time, Holbrook creates a riddle inconducive to solving one.
Holbrook earned a BFA from Georgia State University with a concentration in ceramics and is currently a ceramics MFA Candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Art MFA Qualifier Exhibition season continues with Joshuah Holbrook’s art exhibition. The qualifier solo exhibitions are presented by the graduate students during their fourth semester as the evaluation review of their creative work to qualify for advancement in the MFA program. Come view the work and research by our newest cohort of developing artists!