“Coffee Talk”
40 x 30 x 1.5 inches
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
(2025)

“Untitled #1”
30x 40 x 1.5 inches
acrylic & mixed media collage on canvas
(2025)

“Do You Remember The Bison?”
40 x 30 x 1.5 inches
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
(2025)

“When Bison Clash”
60 x 48 x 1.5 inches
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
(2024-2025)

To view a full inventory of the artist’s work please visit his website below.
(All purchases can still be made through KORE)
www.joshuajenkinsart.com

Joshua Jenkins

Joshua Jenkins is a painter and multidisciplinary artist whose work is shaped by the contrasting landscapes of his life—growing up in Poughkeepsie, New York, with frequent exposure to the urban intensity of New York City and Philadelphia, alongside formative years spent in rural Kentucky. This duality defines his visual language, where the grit and velocity of the city collide with the quiet weight of the countryside, resulting in a dynamic fusion of urban expression and raw emotional storytelling.

His work draws deeply from Expressionism, particularly the distorted and visceral energies of artists such as Kirchner, Baselitz, Beckmann, Condo, Picasso, and Basquiat. Influenced by street art, Naïve Art, and Pop Art, Jenkins employs bold, unrestrained color, gestural mark-making, and mixed-media techniques—including industrial spray paint and collage—to construct layered narratives that explore identity, masculinity, and belonging. The human figure remains central to his practice, often fragmented or distorted to reflect both personal and collective tensions surrounding self-perception, queerness, and cultural displacement.

Over time, Jenkins has expanded his practice beyond figurative work to include animals and full abstraction, all rooted in an ongoing exploration of masculinity through color palettes that evoke strength, resilience, and vulnerability. Drawing from the overlooked beauty of urban textures and decay—rusted metal, cracked concrete, peeling paint, and eroded surfaces—he embraces chance and natural accidents as collaborators in his process. Collaged elements, uncontrolled spills, and energetic splatters create richly textured compositions that speak to history, time, and transformation. In his abstract works, Jenkins navigates contrasts of light and darkness, seeking poetic beauty in the often-dismissed “ugly” aspects of the urban landscape—its fragmentation, patina, and quiet endurance.