Joseph Ostraff
Heaven, Earth, Grandchildren
2021

Name: Heaven, Earth, Grandchildren
Brand: Joseph Ostraff
Price: 4800 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Heaven, Earth, Grandchildren (a collaboration with Stella, Hazel, Scarlet) mixed oils on panel 24 x 48 inches (unframed, raw wood sides) $4,800 This piece was created for and shown in Phillips Gallery's group show on the theme, "Our Global Climate Emergency" July 2021. Joe Ostraff is a professor of art at Brigham Young University. He received a BFA from Brigham Young University and a MFA from the University of Washington. He is married to Melinda Weston, an ethno-botanist. Together they are raising six children. They have collaborated extensively over the past thirty years. This interaction has had a deep impact on his art practice. They have worked together developing significant collaborative projects with Wirral Met, Liverpool, England; Kau Taha Mataika, Vava’u, Tonga; and Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, New Zealand, resulting in three documentary films and numerous exhibitions in painting, video installations, works on paper and book arts. Of his new work Ostraff says: These paintings reflect a longing to locate myself within the human and physical geography and to generate some form of conversation. There is a measure of anxiety associated with this longing... It is an uncomfortable compulsion that effects everything I do as I go about the business of unpacking myself. Sources of inspiration include shapes located within urban and natural landscape and things people give me, all flattened and compressed into paint. While ideas and questions inform my initial process, any clear interpretation of these connections as found in a completed work remains elusive to me and I find myself becoming accustom to that feeling.

Creator:

Joseph Ostraff (1959, American)

Creation Year:

2021

Dimensions:

Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)

Medium:

Mixed Media,Oil

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU154328742862

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Joseph Ostraff's paintings evoke the varied shapes and motifs of human cultures and geography. Using subtle color gradations and rich patterning, Ostraff creates works with startling compositional depth. A three-time recipient of the prestigious Fellowship Award from the Utah Arts Council, last year Joseph Ostraff was also voted one of Utah's 15 most influential artists by a panel of his peers. Ostraff was born in Santa Monica, California in 1957, later earning an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1984, and is now a professor at Brigham Young University. The collaborative efforts he's organized have involved hundreds of artists around the globe and have culminated in more than 30 exhibitions both domestically and abroad. Joseph Ostraff's paintings, book arts, and films have shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions in museums, universities, and institutions, among them: The Peace Factory, Tel Aviv, Israel; the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, IRE; Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University Library, Yale University, CT; Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ; Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT; Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ; NorthArt Center, Northcote, Auckland, NZ; The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT; Galerie du Centre, Paris, France; Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum, Adams, MA; Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, UT; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA; Limerick School of Art & Design, Limerick, Ireland; Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Art Space Chester, Chester University, UK; Ballinglen Arts Foundation Art Gallery, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland; The Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL; Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA; University of Hawaii, Visual Art Department, Commons Gallery, Hilo, HI; Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM; University of Central Lancashire, UK; NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ; Wirral Met Gallery, Birkenhead, England; Minneapolis Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA; South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA; Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead, Wirral Metropolitan College, UK; Spectrum Project Space at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia; and the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.