June 2022: Joshua Challen Ice
Joshua Challen Ice is an emerging artist that works with ideas related to science and philosophy through sculpture, kinetic, and light-based installation art. With a background in lighting design and technology for the stage, the work presents in many forms. Ice’s studio operates as a fabrication shop: a quasi laboratory for developing new ideas. Without limiting himself to one medium or even sensory experience, the tools, materials, and skills collected over time, instigate endless possibilities and explorations. Exhibiting in traditional and non-traditional gallery spaces such as Cultural Trust Gallery Crawls, Bricolage Immersive Theater, and Mattress Factory Museum, among others, has offered opportunities to experiment with many different formats and methods. Joshua graduated from Point Park University with a BFA in Lighting Design and Entertainment Technology and uses his theater training to create fully immersive works.
Joshua’s body of work explores the idea of speculative technologies: examining everyday items and reinterpreting how they may affect our lives. A heavy focus on foundational elements of composition, texture, and lighting create a platform on which material and process motivate the form and function of Ice’s work. Assemblages of reclaimed construction mediums joined by high-tech light and video components probe both our past and present, creating traversable territories and moments in time. Juxtaposing things like recovered windows and scaffolding with flashing lights and live camera feeds - material maintenance merges with the maintenance of one’s self, offering endless landscapes to survey and investigate through the lens of freshly built future worlds.
UPCOMING PROJECTS
3 Rviers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition @ SPACE Jun 3 - July 31 https://trustarts.org/exhibit/23431-2022/juried-visual-arts-exhibition
