JD Walsh
This single-channel video work is a digital collage composed of found and appropriated imagery—fragments of digital detritus reassembled into a densely layered visual tapestry. Drawing on his background as a commercial motion graphics designer, Walsh utilizes software tools engineered to simulate physical laws, which lend the piece a dynamic and unpredictable quality. The imagery spans across human-constructed hierarchies, from buried bones and hidden treasure, to the flora and fauna of the terrestrial world, ascending through the Western construction of the heavens, and extending outward into the vast unknowns of space. The work reflects on the ways digital culture compresses and flattens symbolic systems, creating a new kind of mythic space through motion and accumulation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
JD Walsh is a multimedia artist and musician based in Atlanta, GA. He has exhibited at galleries internationally including Halsey McKay, Cleopatra’s, 106 Green, Brennan & Griffin, and Nicole Klagsbrun in New York, Galerie Steinek in Vienna, and Cooper Cole in Toronto. His long-running music project as Shy Layers has been covered in publications such as Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum, and Paste Magazine and was listed as one of the top 20 electronic albums of 2016 by Pitchfork. He has performed at art venues nationwide, including E.S.P. TV Live from BRIC in Brooklyn, at Essex Flowers in New York City, and at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center as part of their Studio Artist Program.