JOSHUA ELIAS : THE THUNDEROUS EXCLUSION OF THE HYPNAGOGIC

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Heiner Grenzland.
Born in Chicago, a longtime artist in Los Angeles, Joshua Elias studied at the
Design Art and Architecture in Santa Monica and Otis Parsons in Los Angeles,
after receiving his BFA at San Diego State University.
Privately he studied with classical painting technique master, Sylvana Barrett, a
consultant at the Getty Museum.
He has received many honors including an Artist Residency at Fundacion Valaparaiso in Mojacar Spain and three works shown at Ted.com at the Kohler "Home for the Future". Inclusions at the art collection at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, as well as commissions at the spectacular Viceroy Hotel for Kelly Wearstler are some of the artist's highlights.
At present Elias is completing two private commissions, head curator at a series of exhibits at Laemmle's Art House iin Los Angeles , and preparing works for a solo March exhibit in Venice at the Silent Gallery.
The artist lives in Los Angeles and works daily in his studio at the Brewery Arts
Complex located on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.
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