Joshua Elias accentuates harmonic forms housed by disappearing lines, providing an armature serving as the composition. Thematically, his interests lay in the interstitial, the tone of the atmosphere, and the mythology of story.
Joshua grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, in an artistic family. He earned a BFA at San Diego State University, majoring in film and theater. He also studied at Otis Parsons School in Los Angeles, focusing on oil painting, as well as learning Master techniques with Sylvana Barrett, a materials consultant at the Getty Museum.
Elias's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout Los Angeles and in Europe. A hard-bound publication called Rock Light, published by Lumen Press in 2016, combines his poetry with visual printed artworks. Elias's painting, The Skin of the Sea, was purchased by Icelandic President Gudni Johannesson and hangs in the State House of Iceland outside of Reykjavik.
