Dressing Room 2017

Joshua Flint made this painting, called ‘Dressing Room’ at an undetermined date, probably with oils, but maybe with acrylics or something else. The fun thing is trying to figure out what the process might have been. I love the way that areas of the painting are more or less in focus, like the girl in the fox mask. It’s all very painterly. The painting is not afraid to show itself as a painting, with colors that run, and areas where the paint is thinned. In the bottom right of the painting, you can see lines of blue, green, and brown dragging across the canvas. It's easy to see this as a record of the artist's hand and the way the paint has been applied. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of some of Bonnard’s interior scenes, with its casual, dreamlike quality, where figures float in and out of focus. It's all held together through a certain tonal consistency of muted greens, grays, and browns. It’s open to interpretation and suggests a world in flux, still in the making.