Employing physical painting and digital media as means of expression, his work addresses culture regarding interpersonal relationships, sense of self, gender, and sexuality.
Pulling inspiration from autobiographical ruminations, often layered with irony and curiosity, he makes thematic use of societal ties to technology in relation to perception of reality.
Justin works intuitively, allowing each piece to develop its personality. He bridges internal and external by translating non-physical states into gestural figures, forms, markings, and patterns. His introspective narratives act as commentary that speaks to our commonality.
Statelines (series), in situ
2022
J Walker (2021), left
Hare Today (2021), right
Delia (2022)
SOW 222 (2022)
Employing physical painting and digital media as means of expression, his work addresses culture regarding interpersonal relationships, sense of self, gender, and sexuality.
Pulling inspiration from autobiographical ruminations, often layered with irony and curiosity, he makes thematic use of societal ties to technology in relation to perception of reality.
Justin works intuitively, allowing each piece to develop its personality. He bridges internal and external by translating non-physical states into gestural figures, forms, markings, and patterns. His introspective narratives act as commentary that speaks to our commonality.
Twenty Two Years (2022)
Acrylic, colored pencil, flashe, paste, and oil on canvas
20" x 24" x .75"
From Statelines series, irregular geometric shapes—flat and organic edges construct their boundaries, drafted as map-like depictions governed by a void of separation.
The Art Auction raises crucial support for the exhibitions and educational programs that the Yellowstone Art Museum presents to the community year-round. AA55 is one of the YAM’s most treasured opportunities to spotlight the artwork of our regional artists, up-and-coming talent, and to inspire patrons who are beginning their collections.
The Yellowstone Art Museum announces the 55th annual Yellowstone Art Auction! Art Auction 55 will spotlight the artwork of our regional artists, up-and-coming talent, and inspire patrons who are beginning their collections.The Art Auction 55 exhibition will be on display in the YAM’s galleries from Thursday, February 2 through Sunday, March 5.
The 13th annual juried exhibition featuring artwork (no larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches) by 169 artists spanning the globe.
Six abstract paintings are currently on view at The Riverside Hotel in Boise/Garden City. Spring 2022.
Post-abstraction, deactivating 4 traditional abstract paradigms curated by 4 artists in the digital art space. Event in Voxels.
A multi-sensorial experience that mesmerizes the visitors with a world of experimental and interactive art and creates the perfect scenario to connect with the community. The Spanish city of Valencia will host world-class speakers that will share their insights on key factors related to Blockchain Technologies, Metaverses, Decentralized Financial Systems, NFTs and Digital Art.
The 13th annual juried exhibition featuring artwork (no larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches) by 169 artists spanning the globe.
SOW222 (2022)
Acrylic, flashe, ink, paste, and stucco on gallery canvas
6 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Thin maple floating frame
The Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District provides more seamless lives to artists and artisans, in which living space supports creativity and creative space supports lives. The District is distinct and supports live-work spaces, making our neighborhood a unique, creative center for the Treasure Valley.
Facebook EventEmploying physical painting and digital media as means of expression, his work addresses culture regarding interpersonal relationships, sense of self, gender, and sexuality.
Pulling inspiration from autobiographical ruminations, often layered with irony and curiosity, he makes thematic use of societal ties to technology in relation to perception of reality.
Justin works intuitively, allowing each piece to develop its personality. He bridges internal and external by translating non-physical states into gestural figures, forms, markings, and patterns. His introspective narratives act as commentary that speaks to our commonality.
Canons Over Canyons - Six
2022
1800 x 2250 px
Kind
2022
1080 x 1350 px
Pretty Alta Vista Map Deal
2022
4961 x 7016 px
Preset Etiquette
2022
4961 x 7016 px
The Yellowstone Art Museum announces the 55th annual Yellowstone Art Auction! Art Auction 55 will spotlight the artwork of our regional artists, up-and-coming talent, and inspire patrons who are beginning their collections.The Art Auction 55 exhibition will be on display in the YAM’s galleries from Thursday, February 2 through Sunday, March 5.
The 13th annual juried exhibition featuring artwork (no larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches) by 169 artists spanning the globe.
Six abstract paintings are currently on view at The Riverside Hotel in Boise/Garden City. Spring 2022.
Post-abstraction, deactivating 4 traditional abstract paradigms curated by 4 artists in the digital art space. Event in Voxels.
A multi-sensorial experience that mesmerizes the visitors with a world of experimental and interactive art and creates the perfect scenario to connect with the community. The Spanish city of Valencia will host world-class speakers that will share their insights on key factors related to Blockchain Technologies, Metaverses, Decentralized Financial Systems, NFTs and Digital Art.
The 13th annual juried exhibition featuring artwork (no larger than 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches) by 169 artists spanning the globe.
SOW222 (2022)
Acrylic, flashe, ink, paste, and stucco on gallery canvas
6 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Thin maple floating frame
The Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District provides more seamless lives to artists and artisans, in which living space supports creativity and creative space supports lives. The District is distinct and supports live-work spaces, making our neighborhood a unique, creative center for the Treasure Valley.
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Queer ID Juried Exhibition featured artworks by thirty-six Idaho artists who self identify as LGBTQIA+. J Walker was selected for first place by show juror J. Casey Doyle.
J Walker (2021)
Acrylic, conté crayon, and ink on gallery stretched canvas
24 x 24 x 1.5 inches
The 7th annual 32 Cells Art Show brought together talented local artists working in multiple mediums to share colorful stories of people that were incarcerated in this prison facility. The narratives range in subject matter and most without a happy ending or resolution to their time spent behind bars.
Built in 1870, the Old Idaho Penitentiary is one of only four territorial prisons open to the public today. During its 101 years of operation, the site saw escapes, scandals and the effects of Boise’s transition from the “wild west” to a mid-20th century capital city.
Delia (2022)
Acrylic, flashe, ink, and stucco on gallery-wrapped canvas
18 x 24 x 1.5 inches
50% of the proceeds from the sale of this work will go to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Note from the artist
As a white man creating this work, I recognize my inherent inability to fully comprehend the emotional trauma endured by any woman or person of color who suffered racist acts. I was assigned Delia Smith at random for this project. I find great importance in sharing her story. I hope this piece can facilitate conversation and create awareness of the atrocities suffered by indigenous people.
The American federal government created the Civilization Fund Act in 1819 and for the next 150 years, along with the Catholic Church, implemented a genocide upon the Native American population. More than 400 Indian Boarding Schools across 37 states systematically assimilated children as part of the corresponding territorial dispossession and eradication of Native American culture.
Archival photographs sourced from the ISHS Archives.
Born on July 10, 1911, Delia Smith, a Nez Perce woman, was one of seven children born to Priscilla P. Corbett. U.S. Indian Census Rolls listed Corbett as a single mother. Delia and her siblings grew up in Lapwai, Idaho on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation.
During Delia’s childhood, the national strategy toward Native Americans was to assimilate them into white culture by treating them as children needing instruction on “proper” behavior by white citizens. This negative view caused great suffering within native communities.
In October 1935, Delia was arrested for and pled guilty to Robbery. Delia and Dan Alfrey, her accomplice, stopped a grain buyer on the road near Lapwai, put a gun to his head, and ordered him to drive to a secluded spot. Once there, Delia and Dan tied up the driver, took $70 from him, left him on the side of the road, and drove his car away. They were apprehended in The Dalles, Oregon.
On October 26, 1935, they arrived at the Idaho State Penitentiary with a sentence of five to ten years each. After Delia’s arrest, the Nez Perce Prosecuting Attorney said Delia “took a hard attitude toward society, expressing a lifelong hatred of all officers.”
On August 7, 1936, in a letter to the warden, Delia pleaded for clemency, saying she did not realize the enormity of the crime when she committed it, and if released, she would keep her conduct“above reproach.” She also asked to be released to help care for her elder sister’s children, and to carefor her younger sisters, one of whom was in a sanitarium in Lapwai. She wrote a similar letter on May 5,1937 and was granted a conditional pardon on July 20, 1937.
The terms of her release required she abstain from alcohol, obtain legal employment, and report to the local sheriff once a month for a year.
Over the next 11 years, Delia was arrested for various crimes in Washington state, including vagrancy, disturbing the peace, and public drunkenness under various aliases.
The Smalls on Walls series of 222 small abstract works created as a daily painting challenge to experiment and ultimately became something of a visual diary. Exploring artistic styles of abstract expressionism with painterly strokes, contemporary forms, and figurative work.
