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. Hogan uses a variety of painting techniques, slowly forming shapes he calls “wayfarers.” He turns the picture plane as he paints until he observes the interaction between his shapes. He layers color, often using interference pigment, to create illusionary depth. He intends for the shapes to appear in movement, traveling through a vast, abstracted landscape. His paintings evolve, hyper consciously, to describe environment and energy. They are intended to portray an abstracted interpretation of our natural and spiritual world in a way that emphasizes how what we create reflects back to us. Many of his paintings have several incarnations before he feels they are complete, before the painting presents an epiphany of time and memory and the experience that brought him to now. EducationBarlow College, BA Painting, 1997 Solo Exhibitions2019 – Spiraling as Luminous They Climb Oblivion, BoxHeart, PA2016 – That was the River, This is the Sea, BoxHeart, PA2013 – The Way and The Wayfarers, BoxHeart, PANew Works, Carlow University, PA2011 – I Fly Like Paper, Jeff Edwards Gallery, PA2009 – Ruin of Rationality, BoxHeart, PA2007 – Ardent Heart, Moxie DaDA, PA2002 – Small Works, Urraro, PA2001 – Recent Work, BoxHeart, PA Click here to view the artist's CV