Brown Foundation Gallery
March 12 - May 29, 2022
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, March 12, 2021
6 – 9 PM
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.
Joachim West
Critical Mass
Joachim West’s exhibition Critical Mass includes works on paper and ceramics featuring accumulations of human figures. For West these images have historical and contemporary references including imagery of the concentration camps of the Holocaust, the threat of overpopulation, and more current concerns that arise over social distancing during the ongoing pandemic. The mass of these crowds and chaos of their arrangements are the artist’s expression of feelings of social anxiety and claustrophobia. Through these works West juxtaposes the sentiments of being walked all over and standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.
Joachim West was born in Connecticut and is currently based in Texas, where he has lived between Dallas, Galveston, and currently Houston. He earned a BA in Art & Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas followed by an MFA in Producción Artística from La Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain. His work has been featured on CBS News, Yahoo News, Channel 5 News UK, Artnet, the Dallas Morning News, The Independent, D Magazine, The Dallas Observer, Arts & Culture Texas, and numerous other publications. West’s work was included as a member of the second generation of the Lizard Cult in a tribute show to Lee Baxter Davis at the Meadows Museum of Art, an artist whose teaching has produced artists such as Trenton Doyle Hancock, Gary Panter, Robyn O’Neil and Georganne Deen. His work has been selected for solo, group, and juried exhibitions in both the United States and abroad.
www.joachimwest.com
