Hollow Myth at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery

May - 2021  Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

The thesis exhibition, “Hollow Myth”, by painting graduate Josh Green which will be in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery May 1 – 4. Josh will be showing alongside ceramic graduate Shauna Fahley. “Hollow Myth” consists of still life oil paintings on canvas and wood panels painted in the style of classical western realism. The still lives depict plaster sculptures and projected AI generated imagery.

Exhibition Statement:

I believe that the conflicts which are happening within me, in my search for meaning, are a reflection of what is happening in our culture on a larger scale. I bounce between the bleakness of science and its implicit philosophies of atheism, nihilism, and determinism, and alternatively to the irrational conformity to my inherited myths (i.e., Christianity, Capitalism, Liberalism, etc.). While myths offer order, they can blind us from reason and become tyrannical. So, I create images, visual analogs of my uncertainty, in the medium of western oil painting, the medium that depicted and propagated the great myths of the past. The hollow mythology of my paintings is me simply stating my experience. 

Live Stream of Hollow Myth at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery.