about

Brad Hoseley is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a degree in printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2018. Hoseley is currently making paintings that reflect on daily life experience, sexual fantasy, and the breaking of heteronormative ideology. Hoseley was raised in a suburb of Idaho with very limited access to any form of queer history. In response to this initial lack, Hoseley engaged explicitly with the history of queer art and pornography through personal research and artistic practice. The results of Hoseley’s search for a queer past show in his expansive body of work—through lush scenes of tenderness, tension and chaos; both deeply erotic and curiously somber. Through the use of color, abstraction, and icons, the work becomes vignettes of surrealist spaces that sit in between fantasy and reality, playing with that tension of desire that is so uniquely queer.