CALAMITY

Josh Byer is an artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. His style is called Faux Fauvism. Inspired by Matisse, the goal of his work is to pinpoint the moment in cognition when pattern recognition occurs. Featured five times on the front page of Reddit, his online galleries have received nearly 12 million views since 2015. Paintings appear in hundreds of publications, including recent showcases in Style.ca, VICE, OPALUS Magazine, The ARTBO, Creative Boom, and 1968 Magazine. Find more here.