COLLAGE 2025
an assortment of diptychs comprised from trash
series of 8 untitled compositions
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
series of 16 untitled compositions
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untitled configuration
2 found shapes affixed to 1 found sullied blue shop rag as a field representing The Abyss, 13x 14 inches, 2025
> litter on tissue (96 of them so far -but who's counting?)
a found wonder of Nature, a veritable Barbie carrot > seen here positioned comfortably on pink terry cloth
interjecting perhaps from oblique regions, definitely ephemeral - and thereby keeping within the overall theme throughout this following page
- as in that same realm of this redolent potato pictured below, documented from a discovery of some years ago, inciting that fecund vein of trans-historic inspiration from which emerged the noteworthy Venus of Willendorf:
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