Josh Sperling

Josh Sperling is in the tradition of the minimalist painting of the 1960s and 1970s, and the "shaped canvas". He uses complex cut-outs of plywood on which a canvas is stretched and then painted with a palette of saturated colours that sometimes clash. His three-dimensional work tends to abolish the boundaries between painting and sculpture, image and object. Drawing his references from both design and art history, Sperling has created a unique visual language recognisable by its expressionism and uncontrollable energy.