About David Joseph

David Joseph is an artist, physician, engineer and inventor who lives on Martha’s Vineyard and in Naples, Florida. As an artist, David’s media are found object art, photography, and suminagashi. His artistic endeavors began as a child growing up in Chicago, working in geometric acrylics, with several gallery exhibitions during middle school. Equally right and left brained, he went on to enroll at MIT, studying Mechanical Engineering and was voted by the faculty as the top engineer in his class. He began Harvard Medical School while still an undergraduate and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women's Hospital and is triple board-certified. As an inventor, he found a very satisfying path to combine his scientific skills and his creativity to create new innovations in medicine and healthcare.

An avid international traveler, he has visited over 115 countries on all seven continents, all 50 states, and over 250 UNESCO world heritage sites, each destination an opportunity to photograph nature, wildlife, and portraits.  Unable to travel during Covid, David saw the potential to create art from the mundanity around him.  He began to create found object sculptures made of old or used common household items, toys, and sports equipment. Each whimsical, thought-provoking piece displays the balanced composition of a trained artist and the skilled construction of an engineer.  

“By using common, even mundane, objects from everyday life to create highly anthropomorphic pieces, I’m thrilled to find that even young children immediately grasp the connection between these innate objects and the nature surrounding us all. By using ‘trash’ to create this association, I hope I am doing my part to promote both environmental conservation and an appreciation of the universality of traits between species.”