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30/1/2004

For Pleasure

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - Old location, New York

Curated by Ray, Ray S. and co-curated by Daniele Balice
with:
Brody Baker, Jordan Bennett, Brian Degraw, Matt Damhave, Cindy Greene, Van Hanos, Annamarie Ho, Will Lemon, Sean Linezo, David Scher, Ryan Schneider, Meryl Smith,
Kon Trubkovich.

Look at this tangle of thorns. Nabokov, from Lolita

Dont want to meet your daddy, I just want you in my caddie. Dont want to meet your mama, just want to make cumma. Im just bein honest... I wanna see yall on your baddest behavior, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor! Outkast, from Hey Ya

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce For Pleasure, a dynamic exhibition of new works by a group of emerging and young artists from New York City. It is the premier curatorial effort of Ray Ray S., and is co-curated by Daniele Balice.

All artistic actions are sensory ones. Art is luscious, delicious, and ultimately useless to society at large. Consuming over flowing amounts of rich foods, drinking alcohol, luxurious vacations, senseless shopping, among others, are all unnecessary endeavors participated in daily. Everything around us in New York wreaks of leisure, saturatedness, decadence; the act of creating art is a decadent one in itself. This is because it's not at all necessary for survival. It is an extra, a perk, a privilege, like donning a giant gold medallion around your neck. The binding element of the work in For Pleasure is not just its utter youth and defiant energy, but its sheer pleasurableness, its decadent use of images and materials, and its unrelenting lack of fear. All of the work is aesthetically driven and engaging to the eye, constantly keeping the viewer pleased, and illustrating the obsessive pursuit of artistic pleasure.

The video work of Annamarie Ho explores the subtleties of vanity, voyeurism, and pilfered fashion. Kon Trubkovich constructs his love for the medium of painting with richly collaged compositions of varied personal imagery. Brian Degraw's sculptures and paintings assault the viewer with their total humanity, and goth, underworld, grittiness. David Scher will be exhibiting his much celebrated mixed media works that reflect his humorous sense of the mundane and love of the blatant image. The paintings and sculptures of Van Hanos combine technical perfection with naive fantasy-like saturation. Jordan Bennet will be showing compositionally perfect photographs that explore the color, emptiness, and humanity of our contemporary landscape. The work of Mathew Damhave is a combination of full-on criticism, iconoclasm, and unashamed stonerism that is always interesting and completely pertinent. Meryl Smith will present her elegant, off- putting sculptures of animals and children constructed with unexpected materials. The paintings of Will Lemon, created by screen- printing and sewing, engross the viewer with their psychedelic landscape and carnal imagery. The cut outs and paintings of Ryan Schneider cross section uncomfortably personal and pop texts with re- interpreted fonts. Conceptual prankster Sean Linezo is expected to ''make fun'' with video, installation, or situation orchestration. The vibrant landscape and portrait photography of Brody Baker has been regularly featured in publications such as Vice, I-D, and Dazed. Celebrated designer, artist, and film- maker Cindy Greene will also be contributing some of her exceptional work to the show.
-Ray Ray S.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
97 North 9th Street, (Berry Street & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11211
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Monday 12:00 to 6:00 PM or by appointment.

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