Josh Levy is a printmaker in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, following a hand‑machine‑hand loop: freehand digital drawings become CNC‑carved linoleum blocks that are then hand inked and printed. This process is sometimes referred to as post-digital printmaking, coined by Paul Catanese and Angela Geary in their 2012 book, in that digital techniques are part of the process but not the endpoint.
Josh grew up surrounded by art, from his mother’s paintings and prints to summers spent in his grandmother’s art gallery. Creating art that taps into our collective unconscious, art that is half memory, half inspiration from the environment. Consequently, his works are meant to evoke memories both real and imagined: A dark and deep forest, a loved one’s face, a familiar object from an unfamiliar point of view.