#Josh Faught

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Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it! Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using crocheted (or knitted) processes in their work to inspire you….

Images from top:

Miyoshi Barosh

Ruth Asawa

Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdams

Josh Faught

Alexandra Berkin

Jim Drain

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Sarah Applebaum

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Josh Faught

[mybeingthere]

This is a marvellous installation by Josh Faught.

Josh Faught is a San Francisco-based fiber artist (b 1979) who creates sculptures and multimedia installations. His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving and addresses topics of craft and queer history. 

[slcvisualresources]

Josh Faught

I Forget Where I am While I am at Where I am Going, 2017

Hand dyed, hand woven gold lame and hemp, walnut custom shelving, Titanic (VHS) from a video store on the brink of closure, pins, and self-help books

81 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 4 3/8”

Courtesy the artist

[endlessandrea]

Detail of a piece called Triage by Josh Faught, seen at Saatchi Gallery, beginning of 2019.

Full details from their website: Josh Faught, Triage, 2009 Hemp, nail polish, spray paint, indigo, logwood, toilet paper, pins, books, plaster, yarn, hand made wooden sign, denim, and gloves 203.2 x 304.8 cm

[cmhaist]

Some things I saw at the Bay Area Now 8 exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Am I procrastinating on the assignment I’m supposed to be writing about these things that’s due in less than 3 hours? Absolutely. I included the artists names in the captions, except for the first image.

[theegregore]

Josh Faught at Fused Space in San Francisco

[jadonulrich]

Josh Faught Party Favors, 2017 Hand dyed, hand woven, and crocheted hemp; calendar from a gay community group, rhinestone encrusted florist brooch, pin, spray paint, and chip clip on stretched linen. 72 x 50 x 5 in.

via Blouin Artinfo

[freeromying]

Josh Faught at Koppe Astner

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Some Artists to look at...see bold inparticular

Caroline Achaintre -- Igshaan Adams -- Nevin Aladag -- Olga de Amaral -- Ghada Amer -- El Anatsul -- Evgeny Antuflev -- Leonor Antunes -- Polly Apfelbaum -- Hrafnhildur Arnardottir / Shoplifter -- Tonico Lemos Auad -- Lisa Anne Auerbach -- Jonathan Baldock -- Phyllida Barlow -- Yto Barrada -- Kevin Beasley -- Mary Lee Bendolph -- Sanford Biggers -- Josh Blackwell -- Cosima von Bonin -- Paloma Bosque -- Geta Bratescu -- Huguette Caland -- Pla Camil -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Chiachio & Giannone -- Sarah crowEST -- Alexandre da Cunha -- N. Dash -- Cristiana de March! -- Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel -- Tracey Emin -- Josh Faught -- Christina Forrer -- Terri Friedman -- Orly Genger -- Yann Gerstberger -- Sam Gilliam -- Nury Gonzalez -- Sheela Gowda -- Kyungah Ham -- Harmony Hammond -- Channing Hansen -- Mona Hatoum -- Tamara Henderson -- Nicholas Hlobo -- Jim Hodges -- Zon Ito -- Takahiro Iwasaki -- Sergej Jensen -- Reena Saini Kallat -- Kimsooja -- Adrian Kiss -- Abdoulaye Konate -- Teresa Lanceta -- Ruth Laskey -- Sarah Lucas -- Eric N. Mack -- Goshka Macuga -- Turiya Magadlela -- Ibrahim Mahama -- Lavanya Mani -- Britta Marakatt-Labba -- Teresa Margolles -- Annette Messager -- Hana Miletic -- Kazuko Miyamoto -- Oscar Murillo -- Senga Nengudi -- Maria Nepomuceno -- Ernesto Neto -- Rivane Neuenschwander -- Otobong Nkanga -- Eko Nugroho -- Katherine Nunez & Issay Rodriguez -- Fusun Onur -- Sara Ouhaddou -- Rosana Palazyan -- Hardeep Pandhal -- Zoe Paul -- Sheila Pepe -- Grayson Perry -- Michael Raedecker -- Jessica Rankin -- Elaine Reichek -- Faith Ringgold -- Lara Schnitger -- Tschabalala Self -- Indre Serpytyte -- Yinka Shonibare MBE -- Jakkai Siributr -- Kiki Smith -- Shinique Smith -- Renee So -- Valeska Soares -- Do Ho Sun -- Gunes Terkol -- Aiko Tezuka -- Rosemarie Trockel -- Richard Tuttle -- Cecilia Vicuna -- Brent Wadden -- Franz Erhard Walther -- Pae White -- Anne Wilson -- Haegue Yang -- Yin Xiuzhen -- Paul Yore -- Billie Zangewa

[baylornonwovenstructures]

Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it! Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using crocheted (or knitted) processes in their work to inspire you….

Images from top:

Miyoshi Barosh

Ruth Asawa

Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdams

Josh Faught

Alexandra Berkin

Jim Drain

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Sarah Applebaum

Lindsay Degen

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Artist Research

Josh Faught

Josh Faught is a San Fransisco-based fiber artist who creates sculptures, textiles, collages, and paintings. His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving, and addresses topics of craft and queer history.

Almost all his work is handmade. Woven, crotched ,dyeing almost everything is hand done which inspired me to do woven swatches from left out fabrics.

https://youtu.be/EF8EoT8MoEs

[kittybehandarlington]

Josh Faught - similar to my practise.

Josh Faught is a San Francisco-based fiber artist who creates sculptures, textiles, collages, and paintings. His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving, and addresses topics of craft and queer history.

His pieces are Hand dyed, hand woven hemp, cotton, and gold lamé & abstraction. I absolutely fell in love with this work when I saw he unclifed text into his weaving, the idea of creating a large scale mixed media installation is all I want to do.

Faught’s work takes the form of sculptures made from hand-dyed, hand-woven fibers. Typically stitched onto stretched linen or draped over wooden armature, his pieces are highly embellished, featuring homespun construction methods—loom-weaving, knitting and crocheting—as well as text elements and kitschy found objects that provide a structure for exploring the intertwined histories of craft, gender politics and what the artist calls a “compulsion toward decoration.”

If I were to do this/have my own take on his work I feel I would screen print the words on a fabric sheet and intertwine it somehow, or even project the words onto fabric.

[mybeingthere]

This is a marvellous installation by Josh Faught.

Josh Faught is a San Francisco-based fiber artist (b 1979) who creates sculptures and multimedia installations. His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving and addresses topics of craft and queer history. (from wiki)

[slcvisualresources]

Josh Faught

Off-nite, 2018

Hand dyed, hand woven hemp, cotton and gold lamé, Indigo, socks that have lost their pair, a reproduction of The Hobby Directory, a collage made on paper pulped from correspondences with the California Tax Board, spilled paint can (resin), denim, and back issue of After Dark on powder coated steel.

72.25” x 54” x 24”

Wallpaper: Mrs. Fields Gets a Makeover, 2018

Courtesy the artist

[puckngrind]

I’m feeling angsty so I’m thinking about getting into a huge fight with josh where someone storms out and maybe it’s a few days before you talk to each other again because you’re both so stubborn but someone gives in and there’s a really hot makeup involved

Warning: smut...

“I don’t know what you want me to say.” Josh has his jaw clinched and his hand firmly wrapped around his Fuji bottle.

“I want you to say you are sorry.” You don’t even look up from where your hands and picking at the imaginary lint from your leggings.

“I shouldn’t have to.” He almost growls at you. The fight was stupid but Josh was in the wrong and you weren’t just going to brush it under the rug. You look up long enough to see Josh look at his phone again.

“You have to go don’t you?” You return to picking.

“Yes, I cannot miss my flight.” He pushes himself up from where he was leaning on the counter. “I hate leaving fighting with you.” He starts to move towards you.

“Then say you are sorry.” You don’t move from where you are sitting on the couch but you look up at him.

“You know I’m not.” His dips down and kisses the top of your head.

“Josh? Really? You are leaving for the week and this is how you are leaving?” You go to stand.

“(Y/n), yes. I’m not apologizing for something that wasn’t my fault. I’ll see you when I get back.”

“Josh, come on!” You almost raise your voice and that makes Josh turn around from grabbing the door handle.

“NO! I’m not. You can bat your eyes and beg but I’m not saying I’m sorry.” Josh hisses out at you. He grabs his bag and slams the door behind him. You feel the tears starting to well up.

You’ve faught with Josh before where someone has left and he almost always calls on this way to the rink or airport to tell you how much he loved you. This time it was radio silence. You didn’t think anything of it until it was day 3 of his road trip and you still hadn’t gotten anything from him. You got snaps from several of the boys with Josh in it but your boyfriend hadn’t even sent you a simple emoji text.

Laying in bed you hear the door open and shut. You close your eyes as Josh comes in. Pretending to sleep is hard but somehow make it believable. Josh must had stripped quickly and you feel his hot skin on yours. He kisses your shoulder and breathes you in.

“I know you are awake babe.” He whispers into your ear. You shift a little so you can see him.

“You didn’t even try to call, text, snap...telegram, smoke signal...nothing.” You look deep into his eyes trying to see any remorse.

“(Y/n), I’m so sorry. I let a stupid fight get to me and I missed talking to you.” He rubs your face.

“Are you sorry about not talking to me or about our fight?” You don’t melt into his touch like you normally would.

“Baby, everything. The boys told me to just fucking call you but with each day that passed I felt like such an ass and then didn’t call.” His touch was intentional and his eyes soft.

“I missed you. And I should have called you.” You finally move and place your hands on his chest.

“Oh have I missed you.” Josh moves and presses himself on top of you.

“Babe, you are so....” you drop your hand down to run your hand down his length.

“I want to make this week up to you.” Josh says and kisses you passionately then makes his way down your body. Carefully moving your tank off your body and taking his time to re-familiarize himself with your body. “Baby, I really am sorry.” He inches down to your core and you arch your back with anticipation.

Josh’s strong forearm rests over your hips to keep you from bucking up as his tongue caresses your clit. You feel his fingers press into you and your breath hitches from the pressure.

“Josh.” You breathe out and reach down to grab a handful of his hair.

“I got you baby.” Josh pulls back for a moment to look up at you.

“Babe.” You pull up on his hand wrapped around your thigh. Josh looks at you and pulls his fingers out and sucks them.

“My girl needs all of me.” You don’t even have a chance to agree but Josh is pressing fully into you. The moan that comes out of your mouth just makes Josh press further into you.

While being rough Josh is also tender. He pulls your leg up over his hips and you pull him into you. “Fuck” he says under his breath and you know feel your orgasm building.

“Come on baby. How much have you missed me?” You nibble his ear while whispering. With that Josh cums with you. He collapses into you and rolls you on top of him. Kissing you sweetly he pulls your hair out of your face.

“I really am sorry but...” you lift up a little ready to start fighting again.

“But What Josh?” You clench your jaw ready to start this fight up again.

“But...” he pulls you down and kisses you deeply. “But...that was damn amazing way to make up.” He smirks at you and you go to smack his chest but his hand grabs your wrist. Kissing you hard he breathes into you “round 2 eh?”