Josie Gallows is a writer, musician, artist and quasi-bohemian currently based in Memphis, TN, USA. He is also a student at the University of Memphis.
As a writer, Josie Gallows falls into two categories: cult fiction with an existentialist point of view and non-fiction on the subject of social dilemmas and possible alternative solutions for modern living. His background as a writer began as a hack, as most writing backgrounds do, publishing articles of varying quality on the international zinester circuit that eventually came to a screeching halt around the mid-2000′s CE. His works on alternative philosophy have been published in both English and German and have helped shape the modern notion of what it means to be a person who rejects the concept of abstinence as the primary solution to human suffering and will be expanding on these types of writings in the future. He is currently working on a book concerning the city of Memphis, TN, that will be relevant nationally.
In visual art, Josie Gallows works primarily with mixed media. Using his skills as a drawing artist to approach paint on surfaces that have been creatively altered with currency of various national sources and denominations. His work focuses on the role of money in human life, how it is abstract and how it damages us as a people when it is not properly regulated or even considered with much thought.
As a Musician, he works primarily in the genres of Folk and Industrial, combining the two for an effect that is almost uniquely his own. He works as both a singer and a spoken word artist in his music and is currently producing an album for his primary band Black Psalms. His release of an experimental noise album “Guilty Sunrise” garnered critical acclaim and for a release of its nature it was highly successful, garnering thousands of unique downloads of the entire album and is on Ipod playlists from Wisconsin to Timbuktu. His works place an emphasis on displaying the full spectrum of the human experience, particularly his own, and how that experience is impacted by holding an existentialist viewpoint. He is currently in preparation for a distribution deal with a small but effective company.
As a student, he currently attends the University of Memphis as a Foreign Languages major and is highly interested in the field of Linguistics, seeing it as a means to both work securely and work in a field that can be relevant to the arts.
