Jacqueline Fraser
dal 10/10/2002 al 18/11/2002
Segnalato da
10/10/2002
Jacqueline Fraser
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - Old location, New York
Fraser's 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.
Opening reception on Friday, October 11, 2002, from 6 - 9 pm
PRISKA C. JUSCHKA FINE ART
PRESENTS
Jacqueline Fraser
A CLEARER PORTRAIT OF THE LOST BOYS
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Sculptures and drawings
October 11 - November 18, 2002
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce
Jacqueline Fraser's 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 <
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 prejudice's 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.
Fraser's 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.
It's 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 woman's
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
Priska Juschka Fine Art
97 North 9th Street, (Berry Street & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11211
T: 718 782-4100 F: 718 782-4800