Joseph Holsapple

Assistant Professor of Art

Drawing and 2D Design

BIO

Joseph Holsapple received his BFA from Memphis College of Art in 2003 and his MFA from Indiana University in 2009. He has exhibited regionally and nationally, including juried shows at First Street Gallery and Blue Mountain Gallery in New York, Manifest Gallery’s Fresh Paint Biennial in Cincinnati, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Holsapple’s work has been featured in Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual and Fresh Paint Magazine. He has taught at Indiana University, the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, and Vincennes University. He was previously an Associate Professor of Painting & Drawing at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

MFA Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
BFA Painting, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

ARTIST STATEMENT

My current work explores the themes of play, imagination, and time. The work depicts people engaged in the act of play, most often board games or games of make-believe. The narratives are intended to be elusive. They unfold in fragmented spaces constructed from memory and imagination. The shifting bodies and compositional disruptions evoke the passage of time and a sense of disconnection, as if the figures exist in a world suspended between moments and are not yet whole.

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