Josh Podoll

Josh Podoll was finishing up his MFA when I was starting mine at the University of Iowa, and I got to know him a little. He was very calm and thoughtful, and he made paintings that are really trippy, where something is presented as a flat shape and deep space. So something looks solid relative to something else but that when examined your eye falls into it, and the only thing I can think of which is similar would be walking through the woods and tripping into a hole that is deeper than you are tall.

He shows at Feature Inc in Manhattan on the Lower East Side.