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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.
Hace 6 días · 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. His work explores impermanence and counterintuitive methodologies, while examining craft, materiality, and the body.
Joshua Kosker (@joshuakosker) • Instagram photos and videos. 2,567 Followers, 832 Following, 414 Posts - Joshua Kosker (@joshuakosker) on Instagram: "Artist / Jeweler & Educator".
Faculty & Staff Directory. Joshua Kosker. Lecturer, Digital Fabrication & Design. Education. MFA, Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing, Bowling Green State University. BFA, Jewelry and Metals, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Biography. Joshua Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist.
Tangents — Joshua Kosker. A piece of fruit is a thing to behold—ultimately to consume its flesh and discard its rind. To preserve and embody its skin would be something else. 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.
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.
14 de mar. de 2016 · Jeweler Joshua Kosker 's Cubic Tangelo Necklace I is an utterly improbable object. “Since it cannot exist in reality, I had to invent it, for no other reason than being able to hold it in my hands,” he says. The son of a theater actress and an antique dealer, Kosker grew up in an artistic household where creative reinvention was always encouraged.
