Joshua Gabriel
Brooklyn, NY
Website: joshuagabriel.com Neighborhood: Ditmas Park ARTIST STATEMENT: I create visual/auditory experiences using line, color, music and persona to conjure a
mythic, imagined reality. The work is project-based and can take the form of immersive
environments, murals, paintings, albums, videos. Obsessive, improvised line
drawings act as a jumping-off point, covering walls and personal sacred objects, projected into rooms and onto ready-mades. Abstract shapes inspired by the forms and
patterns of nature morph with figurative elements: human faces, animals, ancient
statues. Saturated and metallic colors play a starring role. Influences from different
epochs inform the aesthetic. Psychedelia is employed, but in a mutated, updated
fashion. Mythologized versions of my own ego are alluded to and sometimes make
appearances in the work. Personae are created and then tossed aside.
The work alchemizes visual art and music to manifest a mental space for viewers to
peek into, be entertained by, identify with. For years I have maintained a prolific and
nonsensical career in the New York underground: exhibiting drawing-consumed canvases while simultaneously performing and recording a bizarre range of music. Mom
was a Philadelphia painter. I started out as a graphic designer, moved to the big city,
and subsequently dived into a seething, vibrant, underground art/club/music/dance
scene. Politics informed the work for certain phases, but later, a craving for the spiritual, the cosmic, led to a new path. Recent years have yielded some large street murals, connecting themes of interconnectedness, history, and cosmic consciousness to
a broad public audience. As we move forward into the unknown, the work will continue
to spill out in unforeseen directions, always seeking to remind its audience that
underneath the horrors of contemporary society, life is still beautifully mysterious,
unfathomable, miraculous.
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ARTIST RESUME:Education 2018 MFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 1996 BFA in graphic design, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Public Art 2017 Mural, 362 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Mural, Yaar restaurant, Astoria, Queens, NY 2015 Security gate mural, 100 Gates NYC project, New York, NY 2015 Mural, Hey Hey Canteen restaurant, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Mural, Sneakah Boutique, Teaneck, NJ 2013 Two murals, International Stone Collections, Bedford-Stuveysant, Brooklyn, NY Selected Exhibitions 2018 If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash, 601 Artspace, New York, NY (Group) 2017 Form and Force, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Group) 2016 Brooklyn Art Space Winter Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Group) 2015 Brooklyn Art Space Summer Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Group) 2014 Reuse Remixed: Small Works Show, Materials For The Arts, L.I.C., NY (Group) 2013 Windows at Garmany, Spring 2013, James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery (Solo) 2013 MicroCosmic, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (3-person) 2012 Portraits, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (3-person) 2010 Kinetics Presents, Gestalt Haus, San Francisco, CA (Group) 2008 New Works, Fusion, Santa Cruz, CA (Solo) 2007 Between the Lines, Dalva, San Francisco, CA (Solo) 2005 The Hierographyx Installation, Qbix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Solo) 2004 New Works, Teddy’s, Brooklyn, NY (Solo) 2004 On Top of My Game, Laila Lounge, Brooklyn, NY (2-Person) 2003 Enter Fire, Mata-Lopez Gallery, New York, NY (Solo) Residency 2016 Open Studio Residency, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Group) Selected Online Periodicals Lois Stavsky, “Brooklyn-based Artist Joshua Gabriel Fashions Two Elegant Murals in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,” Street Art NYC, June 25, 2013 Paul DeBenedetto, “Bed-Stuy Stone Mason Unveils New Mural on Myrtle Avenue,” DNAinfo, July 1, 2013 Vanessa Walker, “The Writing On The Wall,” A.R.T.S.Y. Magazine, July 12, 2013 Print Media 2011 ‘Goddess’ and eIght other works, Gigantic Sequins Literary Arts Journal, Issue 4 2010 ‘Ravi Mountain’, Brooklyn Review, Volume 6:12 Online website: joshuagabriel.com instagram: @joshuagabrielstudio facebook: @joshuagabrielstudio |
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