This work by Jacqueline Fraser titled 'The adoration of the blurred artist at...', (2003, oil stick on fabric, 12x12 inches) is from her current successful show at Priska C Juschka Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

This work by Jacqueline Fraser titled 'The adoration of the blurred artist at...', (2003, oil stick on fabric, 12x12 inches) is from her current successful show at Priska C Juschka Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Jacqueline Fraser has also been nominated for the inaugural Artes Mundi Prize with a selection of other international artists and Issey Miyaki as one of the jurors. Priska C Juschka Fine Art presents Jacqueline Fraser New Sculpture and Drawings In the Project Room October 24- December 8, 2003 Opening reception: October 24, 7- 10 PM Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to announce that New Zealand artist Jacqueline Fraser has been nominated for the new biennial Artes Mundi Prize along with the following international artists- Janine Antoni.- Tim Davies - Jun Nguyen - Hatsushiba -Lee Bul- Michal Rovner - Berni Searle - Fiona Tan - Kara Walker - Xu Bing . The Artes Mundi Prize is a new prize, which will recognize visual artists, wherever they are from in the world. Established to celebrate visual culture within an international context, the first Artes Mundi Prize will be awarded in March 2004. Thereafter the Prize will be awarded every two years. It will focus upon artists who are working with the ideas of human form or human presence and producing work which adds to our understanding of the human condition. The artists have been selected by two internationally renowned curators: Fumio Nanjo, Deputy Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and Declan McGonagle, until recently Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Their work will be shown in a major exhibition at the National Museum and Gallery, in Cardiff, UK from February to April 2004. An award of £40,000 will be given to one of the artists by an international panel. In addition, a Purchase Fund has been established through the Derek Williams Trust, to purchase works for Wales. The Artes Mundi Prize will be awarded by an international panel of five, comprising eminent artists and experienced curators. The jurors include: Lisa Corrin, formerly Curator of Exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London and now Deputy Director of Art, Seattle Art Museum, USA- Marlene Dumas, artist based in the Netherlands-Okwui Enwezor, publisher and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and Artistic Director for Documenta 11 in Kassel Germany, 2002- Issey Miyake, artist and designer, based in Japan - Michael Tooby, founding Curator at Tate St Ives and now Director of the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. Responding to the announcement Priska C. Juschka Fine Art will be showing new sculpture and drawings by Jacqueline Fraser from October 24 - December 8, 2003. With this exhibition Fraser is introducing us more to a stepped up concept than to a continuation of the show A Clearer Portrait of the Lost Boys at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art in October 2002, which was a continuation of Fraser's installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, October 2001 to January 2002, A Portrait of the Lost Boys . Today's work is more multi-faceted even: introducing drawings and precious fabrics as a medium, which is standing by itself and not only as support for her elaborate wire sculptures. In turn the sculptures themselves, loose their wire at some time - reaching out to the drawings as an extended medium in a more intricate double- layered way like to the other twin. Fraser's sculptures have become somewhat more simplified, more reduced to the essence of fabric and shape without abandoning their concept of beauty and fashion. Their message, however, is still as mysterious and demanding as in the Portrait of the Lost Boys. Her investigation of what remains unspoken of and what is left in the corners of our societies and in our collective unconscious continues in 2003 with another powerful body of work. The gallery is now open Wednesday through Monday 12 - 6 pm or by appointment. 97 North 9th Street, (between Berry Street & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11211 T: 718-782-4100 F: 718-782-4800 E:gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com Gallery hours: Wednesday through Monday 12:00 to 6:00 PM or by appointment.