Born 1983
Graduated School of Visual Arts
BFA Film and Animation 2006
2005 Melody Weir Gallery, NYC
2008 The Proposition Gallery, NYC, as Parker Wolf, with Alan D. Hasty
2012 (Art) Amalgamated, NYC
2013 ArtNow, NY
2015 Joseph Gross Gallery
2015 Untitled Space, NYC with Indira Cesarine
2009 Volume Black Gallery, NYC
2010 “The Triumph of Now”, Volume Black Gallery, NYC
2010 Chelsea Art Museum, NYC
2010 Dash Gallery, NYC
2010 XXXX Magazine’s Voyeur show, Art Basel Miami, curated by Anne Huntington and Gary Krimershmoys
2011 “All City”, NYC, curated by Anne Huntington and Natalie Trainor
2011 “Afterlife”, NYC, curated by Jim Da’amato
2011 “Ffp: Fuck Fear Phobia”, NYC, by Wolf & Daughter productions, curated by Natalie Trainor
2011 “Round 1″, Lambert Fine Arts, NYC
2011 “Facets of Figuration”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, curated by Gary Krimershmoys
2011 Fountain Art Fair, Art Base1 Miami
2012 “Facets of Figuration”, (Art) Amalgamated, NYC
2012 “Survival”, Lambert Fine Arts, NYC
2013 “UnFair”, NYC Armory Week, NYC
2013 “CutLog” Art Fair, NYC
2013 ArtHamptons, (Art) Amalgamated, Long Island
2013 Scope, Art Basel Miami, FL
2014 Group show, Converge Gallery Williamsport, PA
2014 “Small is Beautiful”, Flowers Gallery, NYC
2014 PopAustin Art Fair, Joseph Gross Gallery, Austin Texas
2015 “Human/Nature” , Vohn Gallery, NYC
2015 Scope, Armory Week, NYC
2015 Summer Group Show, Joseph Gross Gallery
2015 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Joseph Gross Gallery, Houston Texas
Brooklyn born artist Joseph Grazi graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 2006. He has since exhibited widely throughout NYC, with recent solo shows at (Art) Amalgamated and Joseph Gross Gallery. In addition to being included in major national and international collections, Grazi has been featured in widespread publications like Interview and Relapse Magazine.
Grazi utilizes a wide variety of media such as taxidermic animals, acrylics, wood and other materials, compositionally designed to neutralize fear through order and arrangement. Animal and human skulls, bones and taxidermic bats are only some of the elements that, when put together, can trigger fright and relief at the same time. His goal is to alleviate the most ancient fears through acknowledgment of individual power and control in the hope that such acknowledgment can lead to a better understanding of our place in the natural world.
Grazi currently lives and works in Chelsea, New York City, where he also moonlights as the frontman in the art rock band Ferrari Truck.
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Castle Fitzjohns Gallery 98 Orchard st New York, NY 10002 (917)244-4868 vincent@castlefitzjohns.com
Castle Fitzjohns Gallery24" x 24" Taxidermic Bats, Butterflies
and sculpture in plexiglass on wood. 2015
42" x 42 " 8"
Human skull and taxidermic
Bats in plexiglass on wood.
2015
45" x 45"
Taxidermic Bats in
plexiglass on wood.
2013
65" x 24"
Alligator skull and taxidermic
Bats in plexiglass on wood.
2015
65" x 24"
Alligator skull and taxidermic
Bats in plexiglass on wood.
2015
60" x 30"
Taxidermic Bats in
plexiglass on wood.
2011
44" x 44" x 9"
Human skull and taxidermic
Bats in plexiglass on wood.
2015
48" x 48"
Dried Butterflies, taxidermic
Bats and plaster sculpture
on wood panel 2015
16″ x 6″ x 65″
Cat skeleton, marbles,
wood and red rose in
plexiglass. 2013
6″ x 4″ x 60″
Vervet Monkey skull,
wood and red rose in
plexiglass. 2013
6″ x 4″ x 60″
Vervet Monkey skull,
wood and red rose in
plexiglass. 2013
7" x 9" x "6
Vervet Monkey skull
in plexiglass. 2014
50" x 20" x 20"
Syringes in plexiglass 2010
photograph by
50" x 20" x 20"
Syringes in plexiglass 2010
photograph by
50" x 20" x 20"
Syringes in plexiglass 2010
photograph by
model
48" x 48"
24" x 19"
colored pencil on paper
2015
21" x 17"
colored pencil on paper
2015
42" x 42"
colored pencil on paper
2015
30" x 30"
colored pencil on paper
12" x 11"
colored pencil on paper
2015
13" x 13"
Ink and pencil on paper
2013
21" x 17"
colored pencil on paper
2015
13" x 13"
ink and pencil on paper
2013
Joseph Gross Gallery 2013
Joseph Gross Gallery 2013
Joseph Gross Gallery 2013
Joseph Gross Gallery 2013
UnFair, NYC Armory Week 2013
Photograph by Noan Major
UnFair, NYC Armory Week 2013
Photograph by Noan Major
UnFair, NYC Armory Week 2013
Photograph by Noan Major
UnFair, NYC Armory Week 2013
Photograph by Noan Major
Central Park, NYC 2011
Norwood, NYC 2011
48" x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
30" x 40"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
40" x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
40" x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
48" x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
30" x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
30" x 30
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 36" Acrylic on canvas 2015
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