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Working at 1:20 scale, artist Joshua Smith (previously) builds in-depth works that capture the layered existences of urban environments in cities such as Hong Kong, Sydney, and Los Angeles. His miniature buildings showcase the details and detritus left by the diverse population of each city, bringing in elements of the city’s workers, inhabitants, and streetContinue reading "Miniature Displays of Contemporary Urban Buildings by Joshua Smith"
Books line the stacks to the ceiling behind the librarian's desk in the Joplin Carnegie library. Credit | artCETERA Joplin
Joshua Meyer’s dazzlingly complex, impressionistic paintings resist the idea that there can be any such thing as objective reality. Figures and forms instead reveal themselves as filtered through prismatic accumulations of thoughts, feelings, experiences. Each painting’s single, central human subject dematerializes from a dense network of brushstrokes into abstract pictorial space, inviting the audience to play an active role in reconstructing the progressively open images. //CV// EDUCATION 1996 Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA with Distinction in Art 1995 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, CertificateSOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Eight Approaches, Hebrew College, Boston, MA2022 Eight Approaches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Passages, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2020 Chronicity, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2019 Courting Incoherence, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY2018 Many Distances, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2016 Seek My Face: The Art of Joshua Meyer 2000-2016, UCLA Dortort Center, Los Angeles, CA Building Up, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA Towards, Matter & Light Gallery, Boston, MA2014 Glimpses, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2013 Rustle, Sparkle, Flutter, Float, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paintings, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT2012 Pauses, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2010 Everything in Between, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Intermingle, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA2009 Scattered Syllables, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA2008 Wandering and Wondering, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA2007 Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge, MA2006 Becoming, The Bronfman Center at NYU, New York, NY Becoming, The Joseph Slifka Center at Yale, New Haven, CT2004 Tohu vaVohu, Hebrew College, Goldman Gallery, Newton, MA. 38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge, MA2003 Courting Incoherence, The Joseph Slifka Center at Yale, New Haven, CT2001 Art as Prayer, Prayer as Art, Jewish Community Center, New Haven, CT Front Street, Salem, MA 2000 Front Street, Salem, MA1999 Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA1996 The Joseph Slifka Center at Yale, New Haven, CTGROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Reflections, Citron Gallery, Asheville, NC Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, Provincetown, MA2022 The Figure, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, curated by Andi Campognone, Brooklyn, NY Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, Provincetown, MA Remember, Renew, Reimagine, Hebrew College Centennial Exhibition, curated by Deborah Feinstein, Wellesley, MA2021 ArtWorcester Biennial, curated by Beth C. McLaughlin, Chief Curator at the Fuller Museum, Worcester, MA Rice/Polak Gallery, summer 2021, Provincetown, MA Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA2020 Making Waves, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA Rice/Polak Gallery, summer 2020, Provincetown, MA2019 Disrupted Realism — Paintings for a Distracted World, Stanek Gallery, curated by John Seed, Philadelphia, PA Rice/Polak Gallery, fall 2019, Provincetown, MA Rice/Polak Gallery, spring 2019, Provincetown, MA Perceptions of Self(ie), Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA2018 Autumnal, Lyons Wiers Gallery, New York, NY Summer Session No. 25, Lyons Wiers Gallery, New York, NY Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2018, Provincetown, MA2017 Art Miami (Lyons Wier Gallery), Miami, FL Summer Group Show, Lyons Wier G Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2017, Provincetown, MA Really, Matter & Light Gallery, Boston, MA2016 Annual, Danforth Art Museum, curated by Jessica Roscio, Framingham, MA Summer Group Show, Matter & Light Gallery, Boston, MA Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2016, Provincetown, MA2015 Scope Miami Beach, Rice/Polak Gallery, Miami, FL Go Figure, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC2014 Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2014, Provincetown, MA Hello Goodbye, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA2013 Aqua Art Miami (Rice/Polak Gallery), Miami, FL Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2013, Provincetown, MA2012 Rice/Polak Summer exhibit, summer 2012, Provincetown, MA New Works (two person show), Paul Scott Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2010 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, MCC Painting Invitational, South Yarmouth, MA2009 Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA. Go Figure: Contemporary Interpretations of Figurative Art, Curated by Hope Cohn 2008 Paul Scott Gallery, inaugural exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ Masur Museum of Art, 35th Annual Juried Competition, Monroe, LA2007 Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA2006 UMass Boston Healey Library, Faith Alive 2006, Boston, MA Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel. Emptiness, with Meir Appelfeld, Bronlyn Jones, Aaron Norfolk and Stuart Shils2005 38 Cameron Gallery, with Deborah Barlow, Don Gurewitz, Hwae Jung and Riki Moss, Cambridge, MA2004 38 Cameron Gallery, with Hwae Jung and Stephen Sheaeld, Cambridge, MA2003 San Diego Art Institute, International Exhibition, San Diego, CA2002 Stonewall Studios, Stonewall Studios Celebration of the Arts 2000 Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI. Select Work1999 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA. Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, curated by Louis Kaplan Perkins Gallery, Stoughton, MA, Biblical Visions Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI. Raw Talent1998 Boston Center For The Arts, ARTcetera 1996 Thesis Exhibition, The Little Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1995 Bezalel Student Exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel1991 National Art League, Hartford, CT PUBLICATIONS 2020 Stay Inspired: Shelter in Place 2020, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, December 2020.2019 Disrupted Realism – Paintings For A Distracted World, by John Seed, Schiffer Publishing, September 2019.2016 Seek My Face: The Art of Joshua Meyer, 2000-2016, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA, Interview by Ruth Weisberg, Fall 2016. Danforth Art Annual, Jessica Roscio, Curator, June 2016.2014 Rice/Polak Catalog, Summer 2014.2013 Joshua Meyer: Rustle, Sparkle, Flutter, Float, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, essays by Allegra Goodman and Frances Malcolm, November 2013. Rice/Polak Catalog, Summer 2013. Art of Man quarterly journal, Joshua Meyer, Firehouse publishing, Ninth edition, Summer 2012, pp. 3, 24-31. Rice/Polak Catalog, Summer 2012.2011 Slideshow: Paintings That Hang in the Balance. The Arty Semite Blog in The Jewish Daily Forward; Renee Ghert-Zand, January 12, 2011.2010 ‘Everything in Between’ Joshua Meyer Painting. San Francisco Chronicle; Nirmala Nataraj, December 2, 2010. Cambridge Chronicle, Five Cambridge artists get grants, January 29, 2010. ArtQ Magazine, Josh Meyer’s Paintings, January 14, 2010. Words Without Borders, Long Story Short: International Flash Fiction (cover), January 2010. 2009 Joshua Meyer: A Brave American Painter, Valerie Mathews, December 27, 2009. Artistaday, November 30, 2009. Artnet News, Sept. 24, 2009. ArtBusiness.com, San Francisco Art Galleries Openings, March 2009. Burn Away, Go Figure at Spruill Gallery, Ben Grad, February 24, 2009. Bill Lowe Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Catalog, Bill Lowe Gallery, July 2009. Talents, catalog, Paul Scott Gallery, February 2009.2007 Wednesday Evenings: Paintings of Sharrona Pearl, special edition artist’s book by Joshua Meyer, hardbound, 17 full color illustrations, 8 by 8 inches, 2007. Hebrew College Today, Artist Joshua Meyer presents “Seek”, Winter 2008. Hebrew College Currents, Joshua Meyer presents painting to honor President Gordis, December 2007. Atlanta Jewish Times, Wandering Through His Own Mind, Suzi Brozman, May 18, 2007. The Philadelphia Metro, The Knives Have It, Dorothy Robinson, May 2, 2007. The Philadelphia Daily News, A Cut Above, April 27, 2007. 2006 Becoming, catalog, essay by Sharrona Pearl, May 2006. The New York Metro, Check this Out, September 13, 2006. The New York Sun, Figures in Color, August 21, 2006. Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Paintings by Yale Grad on display at Slifka Center, Howard Blas, June 2, 2006. New Haven Register, Heavily textured ‘Becoming’ draws from primitive energy, Judy Birke, May 21, 2006. Makor Rishon, Tel Aviv, Omer Lachmanovitz, March 20, 2006. 2005 Sh’ma, Creating a Jewish Arts Community, Joshua Meyer, February 2005. 2004 Tohu vaVohu: Hebrew College presents paintings by Joshua Meyer, catalog, essay by Steve Copeland, June 2004. The Boston Metro, Divine Beauty, Michael Freidson, December 11, 2004. The Jewish Press, Painting the Void: Joshua Meyer at Hebrew College Gallery, Menachem Wecker, October 22, 2004. Roslindale + West Roxbury Transcript, Hebrew College Exhibit, October 7, 2004. Brookline Tab, Art and Jewish Creation, September 16, 2004. The Daily News Tribune, September 16, 2004. The Daily News Tribune, Art, Judaism and creation talk at Hebrew College, September 13, 2004. The Jewish Advocate, Hebrew College features artist Josh Meyer, September 10, 2004. Boston Globe, Artist finds his inspiration in the time before creation, Denise Taylor, August 26, 2004. Boston Phoenix, August 20, 2004. Artsmedia, Summer 2004. The Jewish Advocate, Giving a form to our world, Penny Schwartz, July 9, 2004 Gleanings, Tohu vaVohu, July-August, 2004. Boston Metro, Big fat Meyer, June 30, 2004. The "Commanding Vision" of Joshua Meyer, syndicated in: Arlington Advocate, June 24, 2004, Beacon Villager, June 24, 2004, Beacon, Acton Edition, June 24, 2004, Belmont Citizen-Herald, June 24, 2004, Billerica Minuteman, June 24, 2004, Burlington Union, June 24, 2004, Chelmsford Independent, June 24, 2004, Concord Journal, June 24, 2004, Lexington Minuteman, June 24, 2004, Lincoln Journal, June 24, 2004, Tewksbury Advocate, June 24, 2004, Stoneham Sun, June 23, 2004, Westford Eagle, June 24, 2004, Wilmington Advocate, June 24, 2004, Winchester Star, June 24, 2004 Newton Tab, New art exhibit on display at Hebrew College, June 23, 2004. 2003 MeltonArts.org, Tohu vaVohu and The Jewish Artist, Joshua Meyer, December 2003. The Joseph Slifka Center Calendar, 2003–2004. The Yale Bulletin, March 7, 2003. 2002 GenerationJ, Mosaica: Grey, It's the New Black, by Jodi Werner, August 2002. GenerationJ, Interview, www.generationj.com, Jodi Werner, March 2002. 2001 Joshua Meyer: Paintings, catalog, February, 2001.2000 Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, catalog, essay by Louis Kaplan, December, 2000. The Boston Phoenix, Christopher Millis. January 28, 2000. The Boston Globe, Christine Temin. January 26, 2000. 1999 The Sharon Advocate, October 15, 1999. Art New England, Rich McKown. April 1999. The Cambridge Tab, January 4, 1999. AWARDS2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Grant2021-2022 CJP Arts and Culture Impact Award2016 Bronfman Foundation AVF Grant2011 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellowship2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Masur Museum of Art, 35th Annual Juried Competition, Monroe, LA2004 Visiting Artist, Hebrew College, “Art and Jewish Experience,” Visiting Artist, Berkshire Institute for Music and the Arts (BIMA) 2003 Berkshire Institute for Music and the Arts (BIMA), Steering Committee and Board of Directors1999 Cambridge Arts Council Artist-In-Residence, M.L. King School, Cambridge 1996 The Trumbull Fine Arts Award1995 The Bronfman Yotzma Fellowship Visual-Arts Representative for Yale in the Arts1992 National Art League, 1992
