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Joseph Holtzman
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Joseph Holtzman (b. 1957 Baltimore, MD, lives and works near Chatham, NY) has developed a highly distinctive visual language that draws equally from his expertise in the decorative arts and historic textiles as it does from art history, literature, friends and personal influences. Painting on polished slate or marble, surfaces favored by the artist for its simultaneous ability to absorb and reflect light, Holtzman—who is largely self-taught—approaches his paintings with zeal, creating abstract tableaux with loosely figurative motifs that relish in color, texture and pattern. Often installed in a Gesamtkunstwerk environment, his paintings can be seen as the cumulative result of decades spent thoroughly absorbing an encyclopedic inventory of visual delights. Holtzman was the founder, creative director, and publisher of Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors (1997-2004), the incessantly innovative and widely revered design magazine dedicated to idiosyncratic interiors. In 2004, Holtzman shuttered the magazine to focus full-time on his painting, and in 2014 presented his first solo exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, which traveled to the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has since entered their permanent collections.

Hardback, 542 pages
11 x 9 inches (27.9 x 22.9 cm)
Edited by Todd Oldham
Essay by Joseph Holtzman
Phaidon, New York
November 2020

Artforum — March 1st, 2021
Joseph Holtzman
The Brooklyn Rail — December 14th, 2020
Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings
Architectural Digest — December 8th, 2020
A New Show Brings to Life the Psychedelic World of Nest’s Joseph Holtzman
Garage — November 20th, 2020
Joseph Holtzmann’s Landscapes and Nocturnes
Curbed - New York Magazine — October 13th, 2020
A Studio Visit With Nest Founder Turned Painter Joseph Holtzman
Curbed - New York Magazine — October 12th, 2020
When Nest Was What’s Next: Looking back at the fearlessly eccentric magazine that Condé Nast was too afraid to buy.
The New York Times — September 29th, 2020
Flight of Fancy
032c — March 25th, 2020
“NEST.” Or, How Prozac spawned the greatest interiors magazine, ever.
Carla — March 1st, 2018
Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings at Bel Ami
Apartamento — January 1st, 2018
Joseph Holtzman interviewed by Sabrina Tarasoff
Mousse Magazine — February 1st, 2016
In the Avant-foyer: On Decadence and De-facement
The Los Angeles Times — September 1st, 2015
See why a new art show at the Hammer Museum will remind you of a comfy living room
Wallpaper — July 29th, 2015
An artist returns: Joseph Holtzman’s works on show at LA’s Hammer Museum
Architectural Digest — June 30th, 2015
Hammer Museum Shows Paintings by Nest Magazine Founder Joseph Holtzman
The New York Times — August 19th, 2004
A Champion Of the Quirky Writes Finis
The New York Times — September 10th, 1998
SCOUTING WITH: Joseph Holtzman; Guerrilla in the Midst
Parker Gallery is currently open by appointment only