Priska C.
Juschka Fine Art
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Jacqueline
Fraser
A CLEARER PORTRAIT OF THE LOST BOYS [[in eleven parts deftly and eleven
details of straining]]
sculptures and drawings
October 11 - November 18, 2002
Opening reception: Friday, October 11, 6- 9 pm
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
97 North 9th Street,
(between Berry Street & Wythe Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
T: 718-782-4100 F: 718-782-4800
E:gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com
image: Jacqueline Fraser, A Portrait of That Sly Back Pushed So Fierce
Aghast [[eyes glancing]] {{Afghanistan, Tibet, Singapore}}, Mixed media,
2002, 94 x 47"
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Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce Jacqueline Frasers
first New York show since her 2001 exhibition at the New Museum of
Contemporary Art. This new installation, titled A clearer portrait of
the
Lost Boys [[in eleven parts deftly and eleven details of
straining]],
expands on and clarifies the themes in that earlier show without
diluting
any of their power to shock.
Fraser says the key word to this show is "gorgeous," an ongoing interest
of hers. In the last year she has been in the Venice Biennale; the
Yokohama Triennial and the New Museum, New York.
Look closely, for example, at the sheets of fabric pinned to the wall
like
specimens. The beauty of these refined prints and shimmering moirées
comes across as a mean joke in a flawed world, a world of refugees, of
children orphaned by civil wars or environmental disasters. In the face
of it all, how has anyone managed to sustain such a stubborn belief in
elegance?
Thankfully, Fraser has. Each of her works is a gift of splendor to
prejudices victims and perpetrators (the division between them
forever
blurred) across the globe. Steel wires, alive with the spirit of Calder
and Cocteau, sketch these boys in profile, boys who have lost their way,
lost their hope or even lost their lives. Meanwhile, a sparkling rescue
squad of women, one for each boy, marches across the opposite wall like
a
parade of milkmaids.
Frasers text tells the tale in an oblique Victorian poetry. Behind
the
formal voice of these circumlocutions, though, a sense of outrage
simmers,
ready to boil over.
Its fury without a target. Or rather, with millions of targets.
Over
the years Fraser has carefully pruned her work of any cultural
specificity, at times using multiple languages, other times appending
lists of country names to suggest multiple points of entry.
Surprisingly,
the effect has been not globalization but individuation. In their
inscrutability, these works do not convey a universal suffering so much
as
they do one womans ongoing struggle to reconcile it with all the
lavish
beauty in the world.
-- Craig Garrett
Join Priska Juschka and the artist at the gallery for an opening
reception
on Friday, October 11th, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
Gallery hours: Thursday through Monday 12:00 to 6:00 PM or by
appointment.
For more information and artist's statement please go to:
http://www.priskajuschkafine
art.net
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