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Joshua Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Drawing from unexpected and often ephemeral materials, his work explores impermanence and counterintuitive methodologies, while examining craft, materiality, and the body.
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Joshua Kosker joined the Frostic School of Art in 2022 as the Art Shop Supervisor and Area Coordinator for Foundation Art. Joshua is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist originally from western Pennsylvania.
Joshua Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist. His work explores impermanence and counterintuitive methodologies, while examining craft, materiality, and the body.
Finding promise hiding in the flesh and beauty in the peel, I treat Minneola skins like animal hides, labeling the rinds by date and pinning them up to cure. My approach is informed by the process of angle raising in which a flat sheet of metal is transformed into a seamless hollow vessel.
Transformed through the daily ritual of bathing, these forms convey a tactile, intimate relationship between owner and object. By reconnecting this material to the body as jewelry, I aim to evoke a sensual experience about the simple pleasures of bath time, with intentions of a more private dialogue.
Jan 20, 2021 · Joshua Kosker. Source: Alliages. When the silence becomes painful, there is always a light of hope... Painful Hope, the new exhibition held in Alliages gallery, Lille from 12th December 2020 to 13th February 2021, and in Munich city center for Schmuck 2021 from 10th - 13th March 2021.
