Joshua S Osburg b.1982 American Oil Painter

Through oil painting techniques, I create subconscious images attached to emotion, displaying a universe of color and visual discourse.

Compiled as evidence, images are processed and created based on experiences that shaped who I am as an artist. As time continues, so does the understanding of the past. Imagination has always played a role in how I process life and how I create paths to understand the human condition. Expression through visual language clarifies what words could not at the rate my curiosity grew.

Perhaps my interests in making clouds look like animals changed early in childhood. Deviant manifestations that matched the environment mirrored in the sky. My interpretations changed organically over the years until after a year deployment to Baghdad, Iraq with the United States Army in 2004.  Some visual memories of this time are concurrent reminders of hells depth. The truth was inosculated with my escape and any attempt at looking up. These images will appear until they are processed and understood with complete awareness rooted in reality. Protected  by the imagination, there is more the eye attempts to uncover.

The most honest thing I can do as a painter is conceptualize my experiences in an absurd manner.

joshua.osburg@gmail.com

CV:

Education

  • M.F.A. Fine Arts-Painting. Fontbonne University.

  • A.A.S. Graphic Communications-New Media. Saint Louis Community College at Forest Park.

Experience

  • Time 2023

  • Life and Death 2023

  • Naughti Gras 16, 2023

  • Tell Me A Story 2022 (3rd place)

  • STLCC Faculty Show 2022

  • In the In-between, Liminal II 2022

  • STLCC Faculty Show 2021

  • Art St. Louis XXXIV, The Exhibition 2018

  • Fontbonne University MFA Thesis 2018

  • Saint Charles Community College MFA Invitational 2018

  • Subliminal: Hidden Messages 2016

  • Art St. Louis, Varsity Art Show 2016

  • Saint Charles Community College MFA Invitational 2016

  • Fontbonne University BFA Thesis 2014

  • Saint Louis Veteran’s Affairs Art Show 2014

  • Old Orchard Gallery 33 Artists 2013

  • Fontbonne University Junior Synthesis 2013

  • Saint Louis Veteran’s Affairs Art Show 2011

Teaching Experience

  • Master’s level teaching assistant at Fontbonne University 2014-2018

  • Figure Drawing at St.Louis Community College 2021- 2022

Residencies

  • Gettysburg National Military Park 15 January-12 February 2018