Josias Figueirido- Creature of the Garden #55

Drawing Makes People Happy is an exhibition centered around the topics of friendship,  community, and creativity. Featuring a selection of paintings and works on paper including  monoprints, inkjet prints, and airbrush painting in combination with inkjet printing, the exhibition  showcases playful and friendly animal-hybrids known as Creatures of the Garden. In 2022, Josias  Figueirido created his signature fictional characters, Piri the Dreamer and Flying Coyote, and the  Garden, an imaginary and magical space full of wonder and humorous Creatures. The works on  display in this exhibition are Piri’s and Coyote’s drawings of the Creatures they encounter in the  Garden. The exhibition encourages the viewer to enter this curious and imaginary world and to  explore drawing as an act of discovery. 

Josias Figueirido is an artist from Spain based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. His work is at the  intersection of art and design, digital and physical spaces, and real and imaginary stories.  Combining analog and digital processes, Figueirido’s creative strategies involve building narratives  in 3D modeling software before they are disseminated in paintings, drawings, animations, and  merchandise. He earned an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a Postgraduate  Diploma from the Royal Drawing School, and a BA in Fine Arts from London Metropolitan  University. He has been in residence at EMAR by Collar Works, Wassaic Project, Millay Arts,  Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Vermont Studio Center, Moritz-Heyman,  Dumfries House, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum in the Post Graduate Apprentice Program. 

His work has been in exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is the  recipient of the 2019 Cindi Royce Enger Fellowship from Second State Press and a 2021  recipient of a Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a  collaborative project. His work is in private and public collections including the Horseman  Collection of American Art and the Francisco Fernandez del Riego Museum. He is currently an  Assistant Professor of Art at Seton Hill University.

2024
Inkjet-print on paper
11” x 8.5”