Josh Tonsfeldt
October 27 - January 11, 2020
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Press Release
Kerry Schuss is pleased to present a new exhibition by Josh Tonsfeldt. In his first show in New York since 2015, Tonsfeldt continues his use of materials and images derived from daily life, and his singular approach to the material construction of images. Across video, photography, and sculpture, the works in the exhibition are spread throughout the gallery, a heterogeneous installation in which disparate elements act as small signal flares that point to one another, and outward to the conflicting pleasures and anxieties of our present moment.
Josh Tonsfeldt was born in Independence, Missouri in 1979 and resides in Kingston, New York. Recent exhibitions include Audible Bacillus, Weslyan University, 2019, I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, 2018, Screens: Virtual Material, DeCordova Museum, 2017, Truth to Materials: Materiality and Process, Parrish Art Museum, 2016, and solo exhibitions at Raucci/Santamaria, Milan and Zero, Milan, 2016. An essay on his work by Thomas Duncan, Material Soul, was published in the March/April 2018 issue of Flash Art International. His work in included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, GAMec (Bergamo, Italy), the Parrish Museum, the Perez Museum, The Thoma Foundation, and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, among others.