Josh Lind
MFA ’25 Fine Arts 2D
My practice is based on my queerness; themes of polyamory, love, sex and connection tie my work to my lived experience. In my body of work for the MFA thesis I am depicting bandanas in transparent media, overlaying the objects specifically tied to the gay community to represent overlapping relationships that occur in my polyamorous relationship. The bandanas are tied together in knots, they float over and through one another, they obscure, they bleed together, all the things I observe occurring in my relations. The process of creating these images is tedious and time consuming but ultimately worthwhile, another metaphor for how I feel about my involved relationship.
Josh Lind is a queer boston based artist, illustrator and educator. He works primarily in wet based media on paper, using his illustration background to work representationally. Masculine figures and gay iconography are portrayed in such a way as to invoke a sense of beauty, accessible to all, but with the social lens of a gay man more explicit meanings can be inferred. Josh’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the North-East, recently in Provincetown MA, and Brooklyn NY, and is owned in private collections worldwide.
