Joey Solomon

www.joeysolomon.net

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Born 1997 in Queens, New York, Joey Solomon earned himself a full tuition scholarship to attend NYU Tisch's Department of Photography & Imaging and earned his BFA in 2019.

Joey Solomon’s images are to advocate for invisible, internal highs and lows of the mentally afflicted human experience. As an openly gay man with mental disorders who has survived an internal pelvic tumor, Solomon's influence is medical. His photographs are equal parts joyful queer expression and a deep well of despair. The current work the artist makes hones in on Solomon's left leg and becoming able bodied again. Joey Solomon makes images of the self, the brain, physical trauma, performance and the psychology of communicating emotional and physical responses to others through portraits.

Joey Solomon's prescription antidepressants as well as the artist’s hospitalization stays have informed his disuse for color to focus on maintaining a monochrome world of foggy limbo, suspending reality in each frame on purpose, focusing on questioning form. If nothing else, Solomon’s work serves to affirm a learning process of our tender and dysfunctional species.

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