{"id":74,"date":"2012-10-17T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-10-19T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:30:10","slug":"josh-beckman-artist-and-exhibition-designer-october-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Josh Beckman, artist and exhibition designer: October 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Southern California native, Josh Beckman attended UC Santa Barbara where he participated in the Honors Studio program & received his B.A. with an emphasis in painting & sculpture. Fascinated by the inherent narrative of landscape – the textures, space & variation of the Pacific & Southwest have long been an inspiration & influence in Josh\u2019s work which often aims to capture moments just either side the fulcrum of turbulent events.<\/p>\n

With an interest in materials & the process of fabrication he has always sought the hands-on environment. Over the years this has led to the development of a particular skill-set by way of fabricating for artists, building furniture, working at Hasting\u2019s Plastics, Merv Griffin Studios & a toy prototyping company, by designing & constructing sets & props for films, events & a carnival company, collaborating with his wife\u2019s floral studio, through exploration on his own projects, & culminating with his job as an exhibit designer.<\/p>\n

He has worked at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum for nearly a decade in varying fabrication & design capacities on numerous temporary & permanent exhibits, and is currently working on a new long-term exhibit about the history of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Josh has shown his own installation work at High Desert Test Sites, Furthermore Gallery, Mario’s Furniture, and Machine Project. He is currently exploring the ceramic medium and remodeling his kitchen.<\/p>\n

To prepare for Josh’s visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watch\u00a0Gaspar Noe\u2019s \u00a0\u201cEnter The Void.\u201d There’s a BluRay copy in the CalArts AudioVisual library or available on Instant Queue from Netflix. The abstract for the film from the CalArts library: “A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night time world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before.”<\/p>\n

This feature film is 143 minutes long, so maybe one of you wants to arrange a group viewing for the class and anyone else whose interested.<\/p>\n

As a side note, design critic Rick Poynor found the titles for this film so interesting that he wrote about them for Eye magazine: “Critique: A soul adrift in neon limbo: The credits of Gaspar No\u00e9’s Enter The Void suck the viewer into an immersive maelstrom of lettering<\/a>.”Be sure to also note the link to the heart-stopping film titles at the bottom of the posting or you can view them\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Southern California native, Josh Beckman attended UC Santa Barbara where he participated in the Honors Studio program & received his B.A. with an emphasis in painting & sculpture. Fascinated by the inherent narrative of landscape – the textures, space & variation of the Pacific & Southwest have long been an inspiration & influence in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-josh-beckman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devilsf12.lsd-studio.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}