VCA ART 2021

Josh Krum

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)

These paintings are greasy and full of holes. Aleatory perforations splay across oily surface tension. These lie both structural and abysmal; each at odds with both the image and the surface, leaking styles, codes, techniques, colour. Synthetic motor oil attends to the metaphor of painting as a machine. Foregrounding the lubricating agent in the absence of fuel, a certain inertia is cast upon a shallow ground. Incessant deferrals, benzene headache and the superfluity of images become dissociative. The paintings are irrevocably undone and distorted by these extra-pictorial givens; the grease that never dries and the arrhythmia of puncture marks.

Josh Krum (b.1999) is also Co-Director of Asbestos alongside Aden Miller

Website

asbestos.fail

Enquiries

josh.b.krum@gmail.com
Josh Krum, Installation View, Motor oil, scorched motor oil, oil, washers, varnish, canvas, disco. balls, cardboard, styrofoam, structural pine, plywood, tin, flashing, electrics, lights, perspex, house paint, wood stain, silicone, screws, nails, wood glue, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Josh Krum, Installation View, Motor oil, scorched motor oil, oil, washers, varnish, canvas, disco. balls, cardboard, styrofoam, structural pine, plywood, tin, flashing, electrics, lights, perspex, house paint, wood stain, silicone, screws, nails, wood glue, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Josh Krum, Drain, Oil on Canvas, 2021.
Josh Krum, New York City Blackout 1977 (#3), Oil, Washers on Canvas, 2021.
Josh Krum, Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil, Synthetic motor oil, oil on canvas, 2021.
Josh Krum, New York City Blackout 1977 (#2), Synthetic motor oil, self-adhesive vinyl, oil on canvas, 2021.
Josh Krum, Untitled, Untitled, Oil on canvas; synthetic motor oil, stains, household objects on canvas, 2021.
Josh Krum, Aspiration (After the Accident), Synthetic motor oil, oil on canvas, 2021.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)

Aden Miller
Anaïs Lesage Baker
Bettina Purdie
Blair Leggatt
Blake McCord
Caitlyn Baulch
Chelsea Young
David Zeleznikow
Ebony Hoiberg
Imogen Arnol
Josh Krum
Lilith Angle
Mona Quilty
Nyssa Levings
Peta Treble
Raisa Mclean
Tara Denny
Tarquin Charlesworth

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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