Visual Alchemy for Non-Conformists

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byjosh stein

josh steinJosh (b. 1973, Hammonton, New Jersey) is a lifelong multi-mode creative artist, musician, writer, and professor with multiple advanced degrees from the University of California and the University of Liverpool. He is an adult beverage maker residing in Napa, California. With formal training in calligraphy, graphic design, and colour work; more than two decades as a researcher, teacher, and writer in cultural analysis in the vein of Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools; and a decade and a half as a commercial artist and designer for multiple winery clients; he brings his influences of pop art, tattoo flash and lining techniques, and abstract surrealism to the extreme edge where graphic design and calligraphy meet the platonic theory of forms. He sees himself as a prototypical black sheep because if everyone is heading in one direction, he’ll always be found somewhere else entirely.