Baker Artist Portfolios

Born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1965, Josh Nozick graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in anthropology in 1987.  After digging native arrow heads along route 50 for the MD Archeological Survey Josh began painting in the early 90's.   With no formal arts training and in collaboration with his brother Alex, a graduate of The School of Visual Arts, the work has continued over the years, solo and collaborative, and has branched out into wood sculpture and digital painting.   Reticent to discuss the "meaning" of his work, Josh has this to say, "...the primary meaning of the work for me IS it's creation..."  Josh says that means exactly what it says.  "The creative process itself, the flow-state, the crafting, that's what connects the work to my soul," says Nozick.  If he offers an explanation of what a specific piece "means"  that explanation will be as a viewer, no more or less valid, he says, than any other viewers interpretation.  Nozick offers this meta analysis of his body of work as a whole; " I am concerned primarily with iterations of image and form."  He says that his entire body of work demonstrates the malleability of identity and the multiple personalities that inhabit us all.