Joshua petker biography
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Joshua Petker
Magic Moon, 2023
About
Drawing inspiration from historical works, which are intentionally kept anonymous, Joshua Petker’s paintings rely instead on their ability to evoke the familiar and uncanny, teasing and tantalizing.
Rather than draw specific conclusions from these juxtapositions, his work unleashes an exhilarating proliferation of meanings and pictorial puzzles.
Joshua petker biography
The artist offers the history of art and visual culture reshuffled—Picabia, Bronzino, soviet era cartoons. Petker makes these his own and the outcome is a timeless dreamlike mix of perspective and emotionality.
With scenes that teeter on the brink of romance and libertinism, Petker invites us to join bands of revelry and onlookers as they promenade through expansive historical timelines.
Recently his scenes of social merriment conjure clinking glasses, sweet serenades, and rowdy limericks. Petker ribs formal painting conventions and plunges viewers further into the artist’s dreamworld—a