Medium: Mixed Media , Painting , Open Studios , Visual Arts , Sculpture

Contact Information

(205) 500-2302

[email protected]

https://www.josephsmolin.arthttps://www.instagram.com/cartoon.dreams/

I hold a funhouse mirror up to American masculinity warping the conventional notions of stoicism and authority to uncover the hyper-emotionality and fragility underneath. My studio practice incorporates sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation to investigate notions of nostalgia and delusion. My work investigates clashing archetypes: cowboys and prophets, revolutionaries and clowns. Through these character studies I seek to uncover hidden truth; peeling back the wallpaper of masculinity to reveal escapism, mania, suppressed emotion, and self-destruction. With humor and empathy in hand, I scrub away the artifice of American archetypes recording what I find along the way.

Open Studios Directions

Go towards Greenville High School on Augusta St. Turn right on Dunbar St. Take a right onto Green Avenue. Then take the first left onto Ansel St. My studio is located at 410 Ansel. It's the white house. There is street parking on the opposite side of the street.