Kulu Yawm
oil on canvas
Spotlight Artist
Josiah Bolth
South
Degüello
oil on canvas
Roll the Chariot
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
My paintings are visual echoes of the voices which speak to us in dreams.
Visions gestate along the porous boundaries between history, folklore, propaganda, and technological systems.
Here, we glimpse menageries of psychic entities emerging from the realms of the paranormal, parapolitical and paranoid.
I seek the creation of a figurative space replete with the artifacts and intelligences of the dreamworld, spaces that murmur with unfamiliar voices and latent presences, lingering at the edge of visibility, waiting to be perceived.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections
Hellfire Club - 2025oil on canvas, 48 x 56 inches
I Think of Him - 2025oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches
Airstrike - 2025oil on canvas, 56 x 50 inches
Dark Sacred Night - 2024oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
Death Trap - 2024oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
The Dinner Bell - 2024oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches
Big Wheel - 2024oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches
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Education
- BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, US
- MFA candidate, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, US
Solo Exhibitions
- The Enchanted Grotto, The Front, New Orleans, LA, US
- Twilight Language, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, US
- Sleepwalk Expedition, Fourth Wall Gallery, New Orleans, LA, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
- No Dead Artists, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA, US
- Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, N.O., LA, US
- Delerium, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA, US
- And Now For Something New, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA, US
- Voyage, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
- Surreal Salon, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, US
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SouthJun 2023
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