Joshua Jefferson

Josh Jefferson is a Boston-based artist that received a BFA in 2003 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Across drawings, collages, and paintings, Jefferson creates improvisational, additive compositions that reside between figuration and abstraction. His paintings are known for fluid, wave-like brushstrokes and vibratory optical effects achieved through specific color combinations. He is as unafraid of forging a face from 3 strokes of brush, pen and ink splatter as he is of layering a dozen disparately drawn discards into a harmonious whole. The artist doesn’t seem to concern himself with end results, but the laboratory’s immediacy is his prevailing enchantment. He makes marks with learned abandon and erases them with naiveté and concision.