Issues

Based in San Francisco, Josh Faught is a textile artist whose works address histories of craft, gender and sexual politics. Using a variety of traditional techniques, including knitting, crocheting and weaving, he brings together hand-dyed fibres with textual sources such as advertisements and political slogans. He is particularly interested in how craft-based media might be used to illuminate themes surrounding queer history: in Issues (2015), the artist combines an advertisement for ‘gay traffic school’ with scrapbooking stickers, sequins, spray paint and a reproduction of the Hobby Directory. Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faught has staged solo exhibitions with institutions including the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as featuring the present work in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2017 group show Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream. His works are held in public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston.