Josh Sperling is an American artist whose practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture and design. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s and 1970s minimalism, he revisits geometric precision and chromatic systems with a distinctly contemporary energy, playful, architectural and sensorial.
Sperling begins by constructing complex plywood supports, which he then covers with stretched canvas and paints in bold, saturated colour combinations. His characteristic forms arches, waves, curls and modular structures, project from the wall, creating an ambiguity between flatness and volume. Painting acquires physical presence, while sculpture retains the frontal immediacy of an image.
Across his series, repetition and variation generate rhythm, giving the work an intuitive, almost musical quality. Colour acts as a driving force, activating both the object and the surrounding space. In contrast to the neutrality of historical minimalism, Sperling embraces chromatic intensity and visual pleasure, drawing affinities with design and pop culture. This formal research extends into furniture, reinforcing a coherent universe where function and abstraction intersect.
Represented by Galerie Perrotin, Sperling exhibits internationally, and his work is held in major public collections worldwide— from New York to Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Brussels, and Los Angeles—and his works are included in major public collections such as the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), the Powerlong Museum (Shanghai), the Rockbund Art Museum, Arsenal Contemporary (Montreal), and the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah).