an untitled series of 25
wastepaper/litter with occasional drawing, white glue on cardboard, 15x 12 inches, 2025
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COLLAGE 2025
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4 untitled / bits of trash glued to Rive's BFK painted with yellow acrylic + some pencil drawing, 13x 10 inches, 2025
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untitled diptychal composition / misc trash & mixed media on sullied wrapping paper, 2 pieces - sort of 23.5 inches square each / 2025
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untitled reversible diptych / 2 conjoined pieces of found trash, 15.5x 26.5 inches, 2025
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side b
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8 untitled compositions / bits of trash glued to wrapping paper, occasional pencil drawing, 14.5lsh inches square each, 2025
an opinion as a preface to Hoskins' collage work:
It is a kind of evocative, objective realism, actually: it eschews aesthetic romanticist pretensions in favor of a perverse and yet clear-eyed, unsentimental existentialism.
It offers itself as a species of abstract verisimilitude, shorn of “cultural pretense.”
It avoids the usual cloying surrealist psychologizing in favor of a “curb your enthusiasm” type of pragmatism.
It is organic without all the phreux-phreux posturing of “Neo Romanticism.”
I can almost smell the rancid grease, printing ink, naphtha and leaking industrial waste that stains the image and gives it its life-blood. It has all the banality and bluntness of a baseball bat.
Harold Graves
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