Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is presenting Waveforms: On Rising and Falling, an exhibition of lens-based works by Joshua Hobson, currently on display through Feb 20.
Hobson is an artist based in Spokane and is currently a lecturer in photography at EWU. He studied photography at the University of Florida and received a bachelor of fine arts in creative photography in 2007 and a masters of fine arts in 2017.
Hobson’s work is engaged with an analysis of, and experimentation with, the fundamental attributes of the medium. His practice incorporates tabletop studio photography, on-site photography and camera-less concrete processes.
“As a lens-based artist I am deeply interested with the fluidity of photography– constantly redefining itself and problematizing its status as a fixed medium,” Hobson writes in his artist’s statement. “Through a broad practice that embraces the studio, still life, re-photography, material experimentation, abstraction and non-representation, I aim to challenge and expand upon the primary tenets of the medium: originality, faithfulness, reproduction and indexicality.”
Through material engagement and process-oriented actions, Hobson’s work aims to shed light on the various uses and origins of the photographic image. He regularly exhibits his work including exhibitions at Candela Books, Colorado Center for Photographic Art, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Newspace Center for Photography, SOHO Photo, Wall Space Gallery, Carte Blanche Gallery, Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Coalition and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
In 2013, Hobson completed a humanitarian photo project on behalf of United Planet and Photographer’s Without Borders, traveling to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania to document the development projects of United Planet. In 2015 his first permanent public artwork, Continua: Visualizing Universal Scale, was installed in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute on the University of Florida campus.
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