

Joshua Hogan
Pittsburgh, PA
About the Artist
Joshua Hogan was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and received his BA from Carlow College (now Carlow University). While at Carlow, he began a series of paintings inspired by his participation in the program, Semester at Sea. This journey to 15 countries, including Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey and Morocco, laid the foundation for the fluid shapes he creates today; a way to visually communicate his own interactions with people as well as the interactions he observes between people.
With a reality most akin to the Surrealists, Hogan’s painted shapes are a complex web of random exchanges that lie …
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Joshua Hogan was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and received his BA from Carlow College (now Carlow University). While at Carlow, he began a series of paintings inspired by his participation in the program, Semester at Sea. This journey to 15 countries, including Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey and Morocco, laid the foundation for the fluid shapes he creates today; a way to visually communicate his own interactions with people as well as the interactions he observes between people.
With a reality most akin to the Surrealists, Hogan’s painted shapes are a complex web of random exchanges that lie in the unconscious and its disruptive disconnection of signified relations. His paintings are an allegory for the interactions he experiences and the relationships between people in his own personal story. The act of painting requires the letting go of perceived memory in exchange for the opportunity to see something new. Painting is how he interprets the stories running through his mind that affect, form, and reshape his own sense-of-self. Some paintings begin with a personal feeling of disappointment but find resolution as the interaction of shapes find a sense of purpose. In other paintings, Hogan’s shapes can’t find resolution. Patterns interfere and cause delay in the ability to get attention or gain acceptance. The atmospheric shifts of color in his paintings introduce a new spectrum to the visible world and describe what it might look like to see through this world. Hogan embraces the fact that interactions between us are now also defined by the meeting of our projected selves. Although, it is often a troubling experience, he attempts to imagine and capture what it just might look like in this internet of things, all-at-once luminous space and data-space.
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Selected Exhibitions
- stART up Art Fair
Los Angeles, CA, 2020 - LA Art Show
Los Angeles CA, 2019 - The Haen Gallery
Brevard NC, 2019 - Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg PA, 2019 - BoxHeart Gallery
Pittsburgh PA, 2019 - The Vault Gallery
Cambria CA, 2018 - Aqua Art Miami Beach
Miami Beach FL, 2018
Press and Accolades
- Pittsburgh Artists Exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach, The Bulletin, by John Kohl
November 3, 2016 - Art Talk: Joshua Hogan, UGallery Art Blog, by Margaretta Ryan
August 24, 2016 - Penn State New Kensington Exhibit, The Tribune Review, by Debbie Black
July 12, 2015
Education
- Carlow College, BA
Pittsburgh PA,1997