Joshua Barndt is a Toronto-based painter, installation artist, and curator. His artistic work stands out for its technical proficiency and raw emotive imagery. Conceptu¬ally rooted in a reflection on the decline of contemporary society and environmental degradation, it is dominated by dramatic im¬ages of bodies in free fall and dark dystopian landscapes of clandestine waste. Barndt’s highly multidisciplinary exhibitions weave together delicate hyperrealist figurative paintings, raw painted animations, and large-scale sculpture into immersive installations. These surreal sets are often void of a specific reference to time and place, and inhabit a line between now and then, past, present and future. Barndt has exhibited extensively in Montreal and Toronto (with solo exhibits in 2007 and 2008). In February of 2009 he unveiled two large public installations as part of Art Souterrain of Montreal’s contemporary arts festi¬val Nuit Blanche, in two of Montréal’s most prestigious buildings; Place Ville Marie and The World Trade Center of Montreal. Most recently he unveiled his first solo exhibi is Montreal called “Leaps of Faith”.
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Joshua Barndt is a Toronto-based painter, installation artist, and curator. His artistic work stands out for its technical proficiency and raw emotive imagery. Conceptu¬ally rooted in a reflection on the decline of contemporary society and environmental degradation, it is dominated by dramatic im¬ages of bodies in free fall and dark dystopian landscapes of clandestine waste. Barndt’s highly multidisciplinary exhibitions weave together delicate hyperrealist figurative paintings, raw painted animations, and large-scale sculpture into immersive installations. These surreal sets are often void of a specific reference to time and place, and inhabit a line between now and then, past, present and future. Barndt has exhibited extensively in Montreal and Toronto (with solo exhibits in 2007 and 2008). In February of 2009 he unveiled two large public installations as part of Art Souterrain of Montreal’s contemporary arts festi¬val Nuit Blanche, in two of Montréal’s most prestigious buildings; Place Ville Marie and The World Trade Center of Montreal. Most recently he unveiled his first solo exhibi is Montreal called “Leaps of Faith”.