Joshua White

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Joshua White uses photography, sculpture, and digital technology to address themes of memory, loss, science, and nature. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and lives and works in West Jefferson, NC. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Appalachian State University.

Education
2011
MFA Photography, Arizona State University

2008
BFA Photography, Northern Kentucky University

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
A Photographic Survey of the American Yard, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA

2015
A Photographic Survey of The American Yard, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

2012
In Search of Lost Time, Gallery360, Lancaster, PA

2011
In Search of Lost Time, MFA Thesis, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2009
Device For The Distillation of Memory, GPSA Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az

2008
These Precious Things, BFA Thesis, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015
Arizona State University Alumni Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

UnBound4!, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA

Home Bound, Invitational, Art Intersection Gilbert AZ

Familiar Space: Artists and Their Neighborhoods, Invitational, VanGo Museum on Wheels, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA

2014
Fauna, Juror William Wegman, PhotoAlliance, Smith Anderson North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

Slideluck San Francisco V, Invitational, Curator Patrick Witty – Director of Photograph for Wired Magazine, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA

View Found, Art Avenue, Greenville, NC

The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Things With Wings, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

2014 North Carolina Artists Exhibition,Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC

Take Flight, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

Formicidae, Roy C Moore Gallery, University of North Georgia Oakwood, GA

2013
Best of Nature Photography, Ordover Gallery, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA

Botanicals (Director’s Choice), The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

Botanicals Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time, Online

Mobile Photography Awards, SOHO Gallery for Digital Art, New York

Methods (Alternative), Juror Christopher James, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

2012
The Small Work, Gallery360, Lancaster, PA

Phoneography, The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY

2011
Phosphorus, Food & Our Future, Step Gallery,Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Phosphorus, Food and our Future, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ

Out of the Blue: Contemporary Cyanotype, Invitational, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

2010

Elsewhere, Jurors Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

James Hajicek Tribute Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

An Equation of the Fanciful and Bizarre, Juror Joel Meyerowitz, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2009

Group Show, Bragg’s Pie Factory, Phoenix, AZ

Bookforms, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Yuma Symposium Student Show, Yuma Center for the Arts, Yuma, AZ

Prinstravaganza IV, Gallery 100, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2008

Fall Preview Invitational, Curator Alexander Jarman, Avalon Arts, San Diego, CA

New Grad Exhibition, Group Show, Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Group Exhibition, KraftHaus Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

New Blue – Emerging Artists: First Kentucky Biennial, Invitational, Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY.

NKU Scholarship Show, Group Show, Artisan Enterprise Gallery, Covington, KY

2007

Poetry, Lyrics, & Prose, Fishbowl Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Summer Fair Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Essex Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2006

Literally Figurative, Fishbowl Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

+1, Fishbowl Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Bibliography

2015
Art from An American Backyard, National Geographic Magazine, James Estrin, September 2015.

Rich Community: An Anthology of Appalachian Photographers, Sapling Grove Press, Bristol, TN

International Photography Annual INPHA 3, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2014

Things With Wings Exhibition Catalog, Cover Photograph, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Issue 2, Artist Feature. March 2014.

Take Flight Exhibition Catalog, Published Photographs, Kiernan Gallery, March 2014

2013

Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Published Photograph and Bio, pp. 64-65. Wyant, Karl A., Jessica E. Corman, and Jim J. Elser, eds.. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. Print.

Botanicals Exhibition Catalog, Published Photograph, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

Methods (Alternative) Exhibition Catalog, Published Photograph, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

 

My mother tells me I used to lie on my stomach and watch ants crawling through the grass for hours. I remember catching June bugs off of her wild roses in a Styrofoam cup, and finding box turtles in the gravel pit near our house. I still love hearing the cicadas come out in summer, getting tobacco juice from a grasshopper on my fingers, and catching lightning bugs in a pickle jar.

The world is full of intricate, remarkable forms, but we take for granted our place in nature, trading sensitivity to our surroundings for greater productivity and progress. The images in this series are a typological study of the plants, animals, and insects I come across in my daily life and travels, captured with my iPhone; the tool seems fitting, serving as a way to bridge my distracted life and my love of science and nature.