Priska C. Juschka
Since 2007
Works in New York United States of America

BIO
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art was established in 2001 in the cutting-edge area of Williamsburg, NY, and relocated in 2005 to the Chelsea district of New York City. By representing diverse artists who evoke questions regarding pertinent issues, such as the urban experience, the ever-fluctuating values of contemporary culture and the global socio-political landscape, the gallery wishes to create a continuous dialogue with both the local and international community. The gallery's program is comprised of artists working in different mediums, focusing on unique two and three-dimensional work, as well as groundbreaking site-specific projects.
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WITH TEETH Group Exhibition curated by Ryan Schneider at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art


Dates:
Thu Jun 28, 2007 00:00 - Thu Jun 14, 2007

WITH TEETH
Group Exhibition

Curated by Ryan Schneider

Kane Austin, Sarah Braman, Talia Chetrit, Adrian Crabbs, Ry Fyan, Suzanne Goldenberg,
Jenna Gribbon, Van Hanos, Alex Hubbard, Ryan Kitson, Marcus Knupp, Gretchen Scherer,
Chad Scoville, Telepathe, Jade Townsend, James J. Williams III and Michael Yinger

Performance by Telepathe from 8 - 9 PM

June 28 - July 28, 2007

Opening reception: Thursday, June 28, 6 - 9 PM

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present WITH TEETH, a multi-faceted group exhibition of hard-working/hard playing and feverish young artists curated by painter Ryan Schneider. Utilizing a decidedly Do It Yourself aesthetic, Schneider has pieced together a group of seventeen artists working in various media, most of whom are personally connected in some way to him and each other. Their work relates loosely to one another and seems to have been propelled by certain cultural references which generate a conceptual common ground.

Working slowly with thin layers, Van Hanos paints fantastical images that are creepily veiled beneath an otherworldly iridescence. Adrian Crabbs’ work surprisingly exploits his morbid fascination with a mundane, lackadaisical lifestyle by creating multi media work that is glib on the surface but oddly sentimental underneath. In her sublimely composed photographs, Talia Chetrit presents the viewer with elusive moments of the everyday; such as tire tracks on gravel, or trails left by airplanes that are physically long gone. Through his installations, photographs and writings, James J. Williams III quietly opens the door for us into his personal life above all still managing to remain absolutely elusive. Jade Townsend uses built and found objects to create sculpture that is always confrontationally ambient and stubbornly rooted in down home punk rock ethics. With his videos, paintings, and lectures, Alex Hubbard fascinatingly explores a variety of bizarre incidents and events, with a particular slant in meth culture. Seemingly trying to make sense of chaotic urban life, Gretchen Scherer presents the viewer with raucously collaged portraits of what we see on the streets and in the subways everyday, injecting the images with a feel of impending eruption. Through his photographs, Kane Austin documents the late nights, early mornings, and intimate moments of his glitzy, gritty life while Michael Yinger regurgitates American detritus to create sculptures and installations that, with Midwest charm, reflect a culture of waste and nastiness. Through a vigorously disciplined process of painting and painting out, Chad Scoville creates richly surfaced canvases elegantly monochromatic, and full to the brim with abstract muscle. Sarah Braman utilizes widely considered throw-away materials such as cardboard boxes, Plexiglas shards, and fragmented canvas to create contemporarily modern looking sculpture calling to mind beautiful makeshift shelters. With particular technical virtuosity, Ry Fyan makes paintings and drawi!
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giant to no particular surface or style, gathering often unrelated imagery and transforming it into harmonious overloaded compositions. Marcus Knupp places the viewer in an imagined landscape, juxtaposing nonsensical images into seamless compositions. With her diminutive realist canvases, Jenna Gribbon gives us an eerie, intimate view into a quiet world of still interiors. With his madcap, caricature-esque realism, Ryan Kitson creates sculptural objects that explore the lesser known but all too interesting facets of pop culture, like parrot toys and over-abundant jewelry habits. Suzanne Goldenberg makes work that relies on the recycled material and detritus that populates our urban landscape. The process oriented band Telepathe, centered around Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais, produces music that is unconventionally danceable, abstractly moody, and ever evolving which they will perform live at the opening.

Ryan Schneider is a painter originally from Indianapolis, IN that currently lives and works in New York. He holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He has previously exhibited in numerous group shows in the US, and has independently published several poetry anthologies. He recently had his first solo show at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM or by appointment.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 W 27th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
T: 212-244-4320 / 718-782-4100
F: 212-594-5452
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Richie Budd at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art


Dates:
Thu May 24, 2007 00:00 - Thu May 17, 2007

RICHIE BUDD

EMOTING SKILLFORMATIONAL REMEMORIES
Installation

May 24 - June 23, 2007

Opening reception: Thursday, May 24, 6 - 9 PM

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Richie Budd’s first solo show at the gallery. Richie Budd constructs performative sculptures and sculptural installations that seek to resonate somewhere beyond the “game over” sequence in their maximizing sensorial potential and their banal dystopian residue. Working with the surplus of our materially dependent commerce society, the artist reconstitutes ephemera into inventive systems -impossibly self-contained microenvironments -based on sensory modalities. These precarious and multi-faceted systems function on multiple levels, both inert and active, in which the objective is to create a structure of reference that keeps the work in play, long after the show is over.

The artist’s main influence is Neuro-Linguist Programming, a communication model that borrows from behavioral psychology, hypnotism, and transformational grammar i.e. By playfully extrapolating from various fields, Budd creates compressed, quasi living and breathing systems that endeavor to infiltrate the senses and invoke intense, impressionable, referential experiences. Specific objects from the mundane (paper shredder) to the ephemeral (aromatherapy) get incorporated by physically constructing, structuring and underscoring the conglomerate “nature” of our lived experience. Whether small or large scale pieces, each is designed to emulate what is referred to as a S.E.E., a significant emotional experience; the S.E.E. has the potential to create or be the source of an emotional, mental or even physical ease or dis-ease occurring in the body.

In Bon Voyage Emoting Skillformational Rememories De Pileon (2007), Budd anchors his exhibition with a seemingly ever-expanding installation in which the artist will “perform” the piece on opening night. The artist will install himself within his scatological habitat operating various elements of his piece, from strobe lights, live feed cameras, and smoke machines to tending to the grill and insuring enough popcorn for an insatiable art crowd. Budd’s intent is to create an experience of sensory overload with a “sound-track” garnered from texts on coaching models and life techniques.

Richie Budd has recently completed residencies with the Triangle Arts Association Artists’ Workshop in Brooklyn, NY and the Vermont Studio Center, VT where he has a permanent installation. His recent exhibitions include Waiting to Explode at the Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, a performance for the Artpace Gala, and Artpace San Antonio. He received his MFA from the University of Texas in San Antonio and his BFA from the University of North Texas in Denton.
-Jennifer Davy

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM or by appointment.


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Aaron Johnson at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art


Dates:
Thu May 03, 2007 00:00 - Thu Apr 19, 2007

AARON JOHNSON
Hellhound Rodeo
New Paintings
May 3 - June 16, 2007

Opening reception: Thursday, May 3, 6 - 9 PM

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Hellhound Rodeo, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his unique approach to painting, Johnson continues his exploration of current American culture, while introducing a heightened critique of its underlying composition and superficial values.

In the works on view, Johnson continues to push the limits of his self-invented process; wherein conventional pictorial logic is turned inside-out, thus echoing the artist’s desire to probe the marrow of society. The images are built by painting in reverse—first sketching the composition on a sheet of plastic, then applying controlled brushstrokes, gushes of acrylic paint, and miniscule magazine cut-outs to its backside. Through this method, a film of layers of paint accumulates on the plastic, and ultimately the work is completed by affixing stretched construction safety netting to this film with a pour of acrylic polymer. In the act of completion, Johnson peels away the plastic on which the work was created, leaving the painted composition congealed to the netting.

The characters in Johnson’s new paintings are composed of emblems of Americana culture, melding references to cowboys, circus freaks, and warmongers. He at once indulges and ridicules their origin, depicting an unforgiving reflection on our over-saturated and animalistic culture. The works are replete with contradictions, as viscera and dissected flesh are interlaced with luscious elaborate designs and vibrant glitzy colors. Juxtapositions of sportsmen and warriors, cowboys and soldiers, or animals and humans, allude to our society’s increasingly blurred boundaries between the perception of spectacle and war. By way of these contradictions, Johnson externalizes the struggle amongst and within the characters, yet deprives them of the cathartic triumphant ending, as they all bring on their own dissolution—the warrior shoots himself in the arm, the bodybuilder succumbs to his monstrous dumbbell, and the rodeo climaxes in a bloody sea where neither man nor beast will be the victor.

Aaron Johnson lives and works in New York, and holds an MFA from Hunter College. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both locally and internationally, including Traun (Austria), New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco. His work is part of prestigious collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art Drawings Collection. The recipient of several grants and awards, he is currently a resident in The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. His work will also be included in the upcoming exhibition Size Matters at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill, NY.

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM, or by appointment.


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Huang Yan at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art


Dates:
Thu Apr 12, 2007 00:00 - Sat Mar 31, 2007

HUANG YAN
Photographs

April 12 - May 19, 2007
Opening reception: Thursday, April 12, 6 - 9 PM

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Huang Yan's first solo show at the gallery. Huang Yan, a native from the Jilin Province in China, now living in Beijing, has been working with the human body over the last decade, drawing from the past in order to comment on and reflect on the present.

The work is a collaboration of the artist and his wife, Zhang Tiemei. The husband and wife team works in synergy, incorporating the shan-shui landscape tradition by making use of the surface of the human body in place of conventional rice paper. Huang Yan also utilizes digital techniques to reproduce his images, blurring the line between the conventional and the avant-garde even further.

By redefining his own body as a canvas and combining imagery of traditional Chinese ink painting with a contemporary setting, Huang Yan creates a new conceptual context. As artists and subjects of their own investigation, Huang Yan and Zhang Tiemei reflect the omnipresent cultural angst of their generation in contemporary China. “The fact is, beyond the characteristic of being ‘painted in the colors of traditional culture,’ Huang Yan’s work projects a profound anxiety that constitutes one of the most central components of his narrative discourse” (Zhang Zhaohui).

The exhibition conceptualizes Huang Yan’s occupation with this subject-matter, focusing intentionally on his series which work with the human body: Ballet Landscape ( 2006), Couple Landscape ( 2006), Model Family Landscape(2006), Dismantle Landscape (2005), Brother and Sister( 2006) and Chinese Shan-Shui Tattoo (1999).

Born in Jilin Province, Huang Yan is a painter, sculpture, photographer and performance artist and currently divides his time between Changchun and Beijing. He graduated from the Changchun Normal Academy, where he presently lectures. His most significant shows include: 100 International Artists at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, 2005, Italy; Between the Past and the Future at the International Center of Photography, 2004, NYC; Guangzhou Triennial Exhibition at the Guangdong Museum of Art, 2002; 1st Chinese Art Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, 2002; Canton Triennial, Canton Museum of Fine Arts, 2002, China; The Turn of the Century: Exhibition of Chinese Art 1979-1999, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, 1999, China; The East is Red, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1999, London UK.

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM or by appointment.


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Emily Noelle Lambert at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art


Dates:
Thu Mar 29, 2007 00:00 - Tue Mar 13, 2007

EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT

Strange Dust
New Paintings

March 29 - April 28, 2007

Opening reception: Thursday, March 29, 6 - 9 PM

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Strange Dust, Emily Noelle Lambert’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Within her large acrylic paintings, she explores scenarios of the psyche that take form organically through a fabricated language of her own.

Lambert’s process grows intuitively from her personal lexicon of images—hundreds of drawings of figures, places, objects, or situations that she has randomly registered either consciously or unconsciously at some point in time. Functioning as triggers for the formation of fantastical narratives, Lambert juxtaposes these images in a surprising and inexplicable manner, in turn imbuing them with context and significance. For her, every form, line, and color is a step in a long process of discovery that unfurls reflexively upon the surface of the painting.

While some of Lambert’s paintings focus mainly on a single figure or scenario, the current works present several simultaneous narratives of witty interactions between figures and landscape, characterized by bustling energy and activity. As the subjects are mostly derived from her personal experiences and subconscious occurrences, the viewers are often left to trace the paintings inner-logic and construct their own interpretation. Thus, both artist and observer are forced to relinquish power to the drama of their own psyche—allowing internal forces to take control and give form and meaning to their very own visual experiences.

Lambert was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and now lives and works in New York. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Antioch College, OH and is an MFA candidate in painting at Hunter College, NY. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Washington DC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, amongst many other locations. She has also been awarded several grants and residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center Scholarship, the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency, and the Plattes Cove Artist Residency.

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM, or by appointment.