What can we say about Josh Cochran that hasn’t already been said? A whole lot of things: we can say he’s a Nigerian prince who needs a cash advance; we can say he’s negotiating a contract to join Lance Armstrong’s The Shack bicycle team. On second and third thought, those things haven’t already been said because they’re lies in the factual sense. We can say Josh makes us joyful with more truthiness, because we’re being honest now.
Place: Brooklyn, NY and JoshCochran.net.
Subject: Everything I can draw and even things I can’t really draw but have a vague idea about.
Purpose: Create interesting and unexpected moments and indulge my obsessive nature.
Tools: I draw with Japanese Tombow pencils, a standard mechanical pencil, ink and sable brush. Occasionally when I have free time I’ll make silkscreen prints, letterpress prints, and more finished drawings on paper.
Art: Anything that has an extreme level of obsessiveness to it.
Studio: Cluttered, collection of old coffee cups, eraser shavings mixed with dog hair and graphite dust on the seat of my chair. In an old pencil factory in Greenpoint.
Conflict: Creating for the client vs. creating for myself.
Reason: This is the only thing I know.
Sanity: Installing ridiculously priced components on my bicycle.
Favorite project: Wallpapering a room at the Ace Hotel, here in New York City. Wheat-pasting hundreds of sheets of a xeroxed pattern I created.
Pet: Porkchop the Boston Terrier. Currently: sleeping.
Music or sounds of silence: Music. Best new recent purchase is True Story of Abner Jay.
Name: Josh Cochran.
Tags: Art, Brooklyn, Illustration, Interview, Josh Cochran
