
Josh Faught
The title of Josh Faught’s generous, unsettling exhibition “Look Across the Water Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog” is lifted from John Carpenter’s 1980 pop-horror film, The Fog. The movie is about vengeful ghosts who float into a coastal town in Northern California, where quaint bed-and-breakfasts provide only cosmetic defense. Faught uses textiles, cultural lore, and other means to evoke domestic comfort and its inverse. The artist has explored these themes before, but they resonate with even greater depth here, especially at a time of airborne contagions, when home has become both a prison