to make a long story short…
 

 Hust looks for the compositions of color, form, and texture that remain after the process of making art and the waste it creates are abandoned. There is something ironic about how in the process of making art we look for and create amazing compositions on purpose, but when the artwork is finished small masterpieces are left behind. As an artist, Hust searches in the spaces that have been abandoned to rescue the art that is waiting to be discovered. He gets excited searching for lost compositions that have fallen along the wayside. Photography and found object sculpture are ways Hust documents his findings. He tries to redefine the found materials he uses so that they might become part of a gestalt relationship that culminates in a unique and absurd art piece. The items are not used for their original intent. By taking advantage or highlighting some other perhaps less important characteristic of these objects in conjunction with each other they create a kind of dialectic. He is drawn to the language of rust and gears spoons and nickles, old springs and barn boards.

Josh Hust lives in Palouse, WA. with his wife and two girls. Hust likes to drink lots of coffee and tell bad jokes while pacing back and forth cogitating about the next big “artventure”. He grew up in eastern Oregon in the old John Day stage coach stop where he and his family built a log cabin. He lived several years there without running water or electricity. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a homesteader. This combination of upbringing coupled with the scarcity of money contributed to Hust’s ingenuity and resourcefulness. When he is not building art he is cruising junk store and boneyards for the next rusted holy grill.