Podcast appearances and mentions of joshua hagler

Joshua Hagler (b. 1979, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho) is a first-generation graduate with a graphic design degree from The University of Arizona. A 2018 grant recipient of the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Hagler has since made New Mexico his permanent home. Currently, he lives with his wife and daughter in the high desert village of Placitas at the foot of the Sandia Mountains. In recent years, his practice has been guided by an approach he calls Nihil, a set of nine self-imposed principles that have grown out of solitary excursions throughout the state. These principles determine all aspects of the work from its imagery and process to the media and objects comprising it. Concept and meaning, as such, naturally unfold out of synchronistic experiences occurring over time. Topics Discussed In This Episode:  Romanticizing solitude and isolation (00:05:53) Joshua describes his meditative practice (00:09:06) Yoshino reflects on how names and labels impact our perception of reality (00:14:15) Joshua discusses his project “Nihil” (00:17:24) How Joshua's personal grief has shaped his work (00:23:28) Joshua and Yoshino share personal anecdotes and experiences with encountering spiritual signs (00:29:41) Yoshino discusses the challenge of describing spiritual experiences. Joshua adds that people often exist in a projected reality, shaped by narratives and labels, which sometimes diverge from actual reality (00:46:21) Exploring ideas around purpose (00:51:23) The danger of equating success with self-worth (00:58:39) Joshua shares his experiences about how his project “Nihil” began and ended (01:17:45) Yoshino uses the metaphor of the “Easter egg” in video games to explain an artist's desire for others to understand the depth of their work (01:25:41) The benefits of living in simplicity and not being attached to outcomes (01:30:47) Joshua shares a recent interaction with a younger artist, offering advice on handling the pressures of age and expected timelines (01:37:59) artistdecoded.com joshuahagler.com instagram.com/aemenededeen

The long arc of Joshua Hagler's oeuvre, with its focus on painting, could be traced by its slow, physical and conceptual disintegration - of it's imagery, politics, art historical underpinnings, and philosophical erudition - from its early pictorial messaging to a need, in more recent years, for direct physical experience of the numinous. Material layering is at the core of Hagler's work, combining a range of self-developed painting processes which force a loss of skilled control, making for radical pictorial transformation. The works situates itself in the paradox of absence and presence, the internal and external, and the sacred and profane. Whatever research occurs with regard to issues such as mass shooting, wildfires, and religiosity in America, only demonstrates itself to the degree that it's relevant to the artist's own background and direct life experience. The personal is thus foregrounded and given preference over academic defenses, which are subverted at every opportunity. Hagler's distinct signature manages to span paintings both physically slight and vast, figurative and abstract. The work is intentional about avoiding redundancy common in an era of self-conscious branding, preferring endless evolution, while seeking to ground itself in deeper authenticity over time. Topics Discussed In This Episode: The Tenets of Nihil Exile & Absence (The Archaic Brother) - The first tenet of Nihil The reasons why Josh moved from California to New Mexico in 2017 Paradoxes Private vs. public conversations Arvo Pärt's compositional style, “tintinnabuli” Josh's observations in abandoned spaces throughout New Mexico Believing in consciousness Axis Mundi Patterns emerging out of observations The Archaic Brother How being a father has given him a deeper meaning and appreciation for life The role meditation has played in his life Artists Mentioned: Ruben Östlund (Director) Arvo Pärt (Composer) Mark Rothko (Painter) Aja Daashuur (Medium) Books Mentioned: The Daemon (Anthony Peake) The Seat of the Soul (Gary Zukav) Films Mentioned: The Square (2017) Force Majeure (2014) artistdecoded.com joshuahagler.com instagram.com/haglerjosh

Joshua Hagler lived and worked in San Francisco and then Los Angeles for fifteen years before moving to rural New Mexico in late 2017 as a grant recipient of the year-long Roswell Artist in Residence Program. He was born at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 1979 and is a first-generation college graduate with a visual communications degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Having not attended an art school or received an MFA, Hagler refers to himself as a working class artist. Not a stranger to class bias in the art world, self-directed research and travel has underpinned Hagler’s career and is essential to how the artist integrates creative influences with his life experience. ​ While most of Hagler’s early work responded directly to a difficult past within a variety of religious groups and their unspoken implications for the artist and his family, the later work has sought to understand religion in a deeper way. To Hagler’s mind, one finds the seeds of religion in every facet of culture, even, and, perhaps especially, among the so-called secular realms. Religion, for Hagler, is not approached in the pejorative but in a state of acceptance that perhaps it’s through the religious structures inherent in our shared languages and cultures that we access what makes us most human, for better and for worse. Currently, he is hard at work in the studio preparing for his first U.K. solo exhibition with Unit London. In “Chimera,” Hagler presents a body of new paintings that attempt to dig beneath various forms of loud political language, including censorship, for clues on how the ubiquity of groupthink informs populist world views on both ends of the spectrum. The artist, in practice, hopes to work into the “noise” to exhume something Other in the physical manner in which the work is made. ​ ​ 2018 saw two museum shows at the Brand Library and Art Center in Los Angeles and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico entitled “The River Lethe” and “Love Letters to the Poorly Regarded” respectively. He has exhibited paintings, sculpture, video, and animation in galleries and museums in North and South America, Europe, and Australia, including a long list of solo exhibitions. ​ Reviews and features about the work have appeared in a variety of publications and media outlets in the U.S. and Europe. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Hagler's move to Roswell, NM  Finding more financial freedoms to make art without worry  His former Christian upbringing and his current art practice Hagler's recent show “Chimera” @ Unit London, and its relation to process and collaboration On being a heavy reader, and the impact specific authors have had on him A discussion on the spiritual experience that exists in the studio, and surpassing the basics of technical expertise into an emotional connection The discipline of taking on multiple shows, and how it left Hagler with little time to premeditate his art to create better works His recent two-person show in LA that expresses the feeling of loss based on a six-line W.S. Merwin poem   How artists can become inundated by the commercial, and political art market www.artistdecoded.com

For the first time ever guest Joshua Hagler CALLS in from New Mexico to chat with the girls about...art! They discuss art residencies, dating an artist, an upcoming exhibit in London and randomly touch base on S&M Dungeons...it had to do with art we swear, no really it was an art project! Lastly they discuss working with the real life Patch Adams as a clown with refugees! Don't worry ya'll this episode is a lot more low key than the title suggests!

This podcast episode was originally recorded in Los Angeles, CA @ NOH/WAVE's event entitled MIND/WAVE on March 18th, 2017 with guest speakers Joshua Hagler, Jarell Perry, Maja Ruznic, and Yoshino. www.artistdecoded.com www.instagram.com/artistdecoded www.twitter.com/yoshinostudios

Welcome to Episode 34! Today’s show is part two of an interview with my two absolute favorite artists, the supremely talented Joshua Hagler, and Maja Ruznic.  If you haven’t heard Tuesday’s episode, you should probably do that, because it will give you some more context for what’s going on today. In this episode, Josh and Maja take us a little deeper into their challenges around money and how that impacts their relationship, and they also make some very interesting strides towards resolving the issues. We also posted an article about trust and fear in our online magazine today, and it dovetails nicely with this episode. It’s called The Spiral Of Trust, and you can find it at our website: www.together.guide/magazine. You can find more about Josh and Maja at their websites.  Josh’s website is: http://joshuahagler.com, and Maja’s website is http://www.ontheedgeofreason.com/. If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps.  Thank you!

Welcome to Episode 33! Today’s show is part one of a two part interview with two extraordinary artists: Joshua Hagler, and Maja Ruznic.  I’m a huge fan of these two professionally, so it was a real privilege to get a look inside their personal lives. This was a very long interview, so I’ve clipped out several sections that we’ll be releasing as bonus clips for patreon subscribers (you can find more about our patreon campaign at patreon at patreon.com/together). What we left in was, frankly, the segments about their challenges. These two are a very successful and very happy couple, but they do have one consistent challenge, and that’s money. It will come as no surprise to you that being a successful artist doesn’t always mean financial security. And that fact has a serious impact on artists all over the world - and their personal lives.  These two have been courageous enough to drop the veil for a time, and to be honest with us about how money impacts their lives and careers.   You can find more about Josh and Maja at their websites.  Josh’s website is: http://joshuahagler.com, and Maja’s website is http://www.ontheedgeofreason.com/. If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps.  Thank you!

Joshua Hagler has worked for over a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area until recently relocating to Los Angeles.  Known mainly for his large-scale semi-figurative canvases, the work has followed a natural evolution in the artists's personal exploration and anxiety around religious thought and its history.  Since 2006, he has exhibited his paintings and multi-media installations through North America and Europe, including several solo exhibitions. Working for over a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area, Joshua Hagler recently relocated to Los Angeles.  The work has followed a natural evolution in the artists’s personal exploration and anxiety around religious thought and its history.  Currently, research and work looks toward Westward Expansion in 19th-century United States as a means of exhuming a kind of poetry of amnesia and redemptive yearning in colonists, settlers and their descendents.  Since 2006, he has exhibited his paintings, videos, and multi-media installations throughout North America and Europe, including several solo exhibitions.  “Between Winds,” submitted here for the Transart Triennale is currently a part of Hagler’s traveling solo exhibition “The Adopted” first appearing at La Sierra University in Riverside, California and now at JAUS Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2013, Hagler traveled for three months with collaborator Maja Ruznic through Eastern and Western Europe and the Middle East making art with war refugees, orphans, and the terminally ill while creating the art book DRIFT.  2013 also included guest lecturing at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, and solo show The Unsurrendered at the university gallery. In 2012, his animated video projection “The Evangelists” was based on interviews with four middle-aged men dealing with psychological trauma and included Hagler’s former neighbor who burned down their mutual San Francisco apartment building in 2007. The piece was later selected to exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and the Royal Institute in Adelaide, Australia.     Maja Ruznic was born in Bosnia & Hercegovina in 1983 and came to the United States as a refugee in 1992.  She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.  Ruznic studied Psychology and Art at UC Berkeley and received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2009.  She has exhibited in Japan, Turkey, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, Puerto Rico, Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Her painting "The Mother of All Evil" was featured on the cover of New American Paintings in 2011 (Pacific Coast Section, Number 97).  Ruznic’s work is included in the Jiminez-Colon Collection (Puerto Rico) and she recently received the Dave Bown (9th semiannual competition) Award of Excellence.  She was a featured artist in JUXTAPOZ art magazine in the Septemeber 2014 issue.     Last year, Ruznic’s first international solo show, “Yellow Throat Ribs” at Galerie d’Ys was a great success.  Congruent with the solo show, Ruznic was also represented by Candyland Gallery at the Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden through which the Public Arts Commission acquired two of Ruznic’s paintings.   In 2016, Ruznic will have a solo exhibition at Jack Fischer Gallery titled “Soil As Witness”, which will consists of large oil paintings, small works on paper as well as sculptures.  She will also be a part of  “Werewolf” a group exhibition at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angles, as well as “Between Worlds”, a group exhibition at Arc Gallery in San Francisco, in which all the artists were refugees or deal with the themes of immigration and Diaspora in their work.   www.artistdecoded.com www.instagram.com/artistdecoded www.twitter.com/yoshinostudios