Joseph Ostraff
BOOM!
2021

Name: BOOM!
Brand: Joseph Ostraff
Price: 14500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

BOOM! mixed oils on panel 40 x 70 inches (unframed, raw wood sides) $14,500 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: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 70 in (177.8 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Panel

Movement & Style:

Abstract Geometric

Period:

2010-