Collection: Josh Whipkey

Josh Whipkey (b. 1975, Connellsville, PA), artist/maker, received his BFA from Seton Hill University (1997) and his MFA from the Pennsylvania State University (2004). Josh has been living and working in and around of the DC metropolitan area for the last 12 years in various creative roles, and more recently has been exhibiting his art work throughout the Maryland, Virginia, D.C. area. He is currently working as a project manager for a small custom design-build contractor in Warrenton, VA. Prior to that, Josh ran his own custom furniture company and was an exhibitions designer/installer at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Josh is represented by Carrie Coleman Fine Art, Norfolk, Virginia.

In 2018, Whipkey had a one-man exhibition at the Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA; Anxiety/Agency.

Whipkey’s work is included in many private collections across the United States, as well as the INOVA Hospital of Fairfax Public Collection.

“Abstract art is a way to “approach the site” of trauma – individual or collective – with agency in determining how to position oneself in relation to the trauma rather than to simply be held captive by its effects.  It traces the contours of the unconscious, and reveals the logic of certain innate mechanisms that, according to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, cannot be expressed in language.”