Joshua Horkey 'Given Free' Tondo Available

Artist: Joshua Horkey
Title: Given Free
Medium: Collage + Mixed Media
Size: Ø17 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $1,700

  

Joshua Horkey is a mixed media artist from the United States, born in Windom, Minnesota, in 1976. He currently lives and maintains a studio in Southwest Florida, where he produces a variety of layered works using acrylics, collage, and found materials. His creative background is deeply rooted in the apparel industry, having spent over twenty years as a designer and graphic artist after studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This extensive professional history in fashion and graphic design heavily informs his use of color, typography, and visual layout.

Horkey’s artistic practice focuses on the intersection of memory, media, and physical materials. He often works on wood panels and reclaimed surfaces, such as antique windows, to build compositions that feature vintage ephemera and appropriated comic imagery. His process involves a tactile method of adding and tearing back layers of paint and paper, a technique that highlights the history of each piece and resists the flat nature of digital imagery. Through his work, he explores themes of human vulnerability, the overabundance of media, and the way visual noise shapes our collective perception. His art has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Moleskine Foundation in Milan, Italy.