Josh Faught

Josh Faught is a San Francisco-based fiber artist (born 1979, St. Louis, Missouri) who creates sculptures, textiles, collages, and paintings.[1] His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving, and addresses topics of craft and queer history. His fiber sculptures, influenced by both domestic crafts and art styles such as abstract and color field painting, are often either hung on the wall or stretched over scaffolding such as garden trellises; they are three-dimensional but forward-oriented.[2]

Josh Faught

Education

Faught graduated from Oberlin College in 2001. He earned an AAS in Textile and Surface Design from FIT in 2004 and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.[3][4]

Career

In 2012, the work It Takes a Lifetime to Get Exactly Where You Are included a section that used weaving to replicate a segment of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It Takes a Lifetime evokes the mixed history of the feminist craft revival of the 1970s and the concurrent AIDS crisis. It also assesses the legacy of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was criticized during its early years for sentimentality and a lack of political direction. It Takes a Lifetime recognizes the "grassroots networks for caregiving and other support that are not easily integrated into official histories and are often subject to dismissal as merely creative, ameliorative, or apolitical."[5]

In 2013, Faught, commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, created an installation for the Neptune Society Columbarium in San Francisco. The major element, Untitled (2013) consisted of a large panel, both woven and crocheted, hung from the central archway of the Columbarium. The panel incorporated various objects that mimicked offerings left by the niches, such as plastic food, pins, and greeting cards. Untitled (2013) addresses issues of memorialization in a sympathetic and irreverent manner. Of the project, Faught said: “Really ordinary objects can resonate on a deeply personal level. They can archive someone in a really idiosyncratic and unusual way.”[6]

According to the article, Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus by Steven Frost,[7] "approaches the impediments of feminism, hobby craft, and queer history with a sense of reverence and anxiety." His artwork represents the hardships of gay individuals and fiber artists to conform in our society while staying innovative.

Exhibitions
  • Christmas Creep, Lisa Cooley: New York[8]
  • I know I came into this room for a reason, Kendall Koppe Gallery: Glasgow, Scotland[9]
  • SECA Art Award: BE BOLD For WhatYou Stand For, BE CAREFUL For What You Fall For, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. 2013.

References
  1. "Josh Faught | California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  2. Sarah Parrish, "Josh Faught" in Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present. Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston: China 2014. Print.
  3. Auther, Elissa (February 26, 2015). "He is survived by his longtime companion: Feeling in the Work of Josh Faught". Art Practical. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  4. SFMOMA bio
  5. Elissa Auther, "He Is Survived by His Longtime Companion: Feeling in the Work of Josh Faught" in Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture. Bloomsbury Academic: New York 2016. Print.
  6. "Fake snacks and jack-o'-lanterns: Josh Faught takes us to the Neptune Society Columbarium". YouTube. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. September 10, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  7. "Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus | Art21 Magazine". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  8. Patel, Alpesh Kantilal. "Artforum Picks". Artforum. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  9. Thompson, Susannah (December 2014). "Josh Faught: I know I Came into this Room for a Reason". Art Review. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
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