Bio

New York-based visual artist Les Joynes (American, b. Santa Barbara, California) is founder of Form Laboratory - a nomadic museum-within-a-museum - a process-based laboratory creating artifacts from found materials - transforming them through spectacle into objects which merge layers of historicity into combinatory new forms. These works explore artist-made archeological sites that become assembly lines of yet unclassified evolved objects that proliferate both in his sculptural installations, performances and paintings.

Current paintings, Portals, are color-saturated rococo and baroque recollection-afterburns from Alain Resnais' 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. Joynes' work has exhibited at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Maejima Art Center, Japan; Art & Culture Foundation, Seoul; Museum of Modern Art, Wales; AIT Tactical Museum, Tokyo; Norimatsu Museum, Japan; 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York; Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin; Nylon, London; Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo. He was MEXT Scholar, Tokyo; NKD Fellow, Norway; Edwin Austin Abbey Fellow, New York and artist fellow at the Bauhaus, Germany and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His work is currently being prepared for exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Nagano, Japan in 2012.

He possesses an MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London; MA in Sculpture at Musashino Art University, Tokyo; BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central St. Martins, London; and is completing a PhD, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK, 2012; He is Visiting Scholar in Visual Art 2008-2010; Visiting Scholar in Philosophy 2011-2012 Columbia University, New York.

(images: top, studio Manhattan; middle, Still from Form Laboratory, Treignac Projet, France 2010; bottom, artifacts created in the Form Laboratory in exhibition at Treignac Projet, Limousin, France)