The Well 2019

Joshua Flint’s painting, The Well, emerges with moody browns and greens, like an overgrown, haunted forest. The surface feels built up and scraped away, revealing a history of trial and error. I imagine Flint layering these translucent glazes, each layer responding to what came before, the way one thought triggers another. The ghostly television set, with its promise of an alternate reality, is a window into Flint’s process. What did he see when he made this? How did this come to be? There’s a strange dialogue happening here, a conversation with painters of the past. One brushstroke feels like de Kooning, another like maybe Bonnard. But ultimately, the painting is uniquely Flint’s—a testament to how artists borrow, steal, and transform influences into something new. Artists are always in conversation, exchanging ideas across time. Painting embraces ambiguity, offering multiple interpretations instead of fixed meanings.