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15 Minutes Before The Rapture, 2006, Polaroid, JPEG
   
J.D. Szalla
The New Gard
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Ideas and Observations: list 090506

1. All of my work is in progress.
2. Design: Gaye Bykers On Acid?
3. The one million dollar ticket idea: The Other Bees Auction.
4. Nikki Le Badd gives out the wrong #.
5. B/W portraits of the locals of Bronxville, not in their normal dress and the new Spinning Wheel as architecture/environment?
6. Children’s connect the dots drawings in relation to Sol Lewitt?
7. The relation of iconic works to my birth in 1972?
8. Read: a Manuel on Parliamentary Practice by Thomas Jefferson.
9. Joseph Beuys: I know No Weekend, 1972.
10. Object: Portrait of Dennis Hopper silk-screened or painted with cocaine on a blue velvet canvas, supported by Pabst Blue Ribbon.
11. What is the American equivalent of Emanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason?
12. What is the opposite?
13. Fabricate the life-sized Jesus rattrap.
14. Get to know Jane & Jim Davis of Bronxville.
15. Research dry cleaning supply catalogues for material elements.
16. Create a kit of my favorite things as a multiple.
17. Recycle American flags as an exhibition: Title: Flag Drop, after the American Legion.
18. If you want a message buy a newspaper.
19. The assassination scene from “Death of A President“
20. DeKooning’s women and incredible hulk hybrid paintings?
21. Sexy form & content through the use of materials.
22. Lobster wallpaper or tile, white fur coat and extension cords displayed voyeuristic for Angus Young.
23. Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
24. The Starry Night legacy: Van Gogh, Cornell, Turell and
25. Ego Emissions Ratings are butter knives.
26. Secure Ronald Feldman as my dealer.
27. Katie Couric and Andy’s Double Elvis with wax lips.
28. A pane of thick glass, a MoMA design store purse, a bare light bulb, a piece of red coral and two used saw blades.
29. Title: How to deflate a lobster.
30. Ram industries from North Little Rock, AR.
31. Douglas Gordon wallpaper from $3,500 to $45,000.
32. I want to double 69 Sonia and Liz @ The New Wheel.
33. “To publish a review of a work in progress is inappropriate.”
   

Jason Szalla

1972 born in Pittsburgh, United States

Lives and works in New York, United States

Education

Born: 1972, Pittsburgh, PA
Pratt Institute, 2001-2003 (B.F.A. Painting & Art History, Highest Honors, GPA 3.97), Brooklyn, NY
Glasgow School of Art, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, 2001, New York, NY
University of Pittsburgh, 1991-1994 (Studio Arts & Art History), Pittsburgh, PA

Grants

Certificate of Excellence, Outstanding Academic Achievement, Pratt Institute
Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Merit in Painting, Pratt Institute
Bennett Scholarship, Pratt Institute
Carlow Memorial Scholarship, Pratt Institute
Presidential Merit Award Scholarship & Dean's Office Award, Pratt Institute
Milton Avery Award Scholarship, New York Studio School

Solo Exhibitions

Shine, Artist in Residence and Solo Exhibition of New Work, Artists Unlimited, March-May, 2004, Bielefeld, Germany
Cracker, Solo Exhibition of New Paintings, Art House Hotel, Fall 2002, Glasgow, Scotland

Group Exhibitions

Pittsburgh Alumni: Twenty Artists from Beyond the Rivers, The Digging Pitt Gallery, September 14th-November 4th, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
Assorted Candies, The Art House, October 6th-31st, 2006, Charlotte, NC
YEA! Young Emerging Artists, The Arts Exchange Westchester Arts Council, June 10th-July 29th, 2006, White Plains, NY
Welcome Back (Side II), The Digging Pitt Gallery, April 13th-May 6th, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
For a (n) relation(s), The ADA Gallery, April 28th-May 27th, 2006, Richmond, VA
Teach Your Children About Johnny Cash, Experimental Objects & Works on Paper, The Beehive, January 27th-February 27th 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
Messages, New Works on Paper, No. 17 Tram, December 2005, Prague, Czech Republic
Pattern + Pulse, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Nov. 21-Dec. 18, 2005, Cazenovia, NY

This is 7: An International Exhibition of New Painting, Charles University Faculty of Law, June 7- July 8, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic
Visual AIDS Annual Postcards from the Edge, Galerie Lelong, Robert Miller Gallery, October 2003-2005, New York, NY
Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artists Space, 2003-2006, New York, NY
Compression, New Paintings by Jason Szalla & Stefan Dunlop, Ensign Gallery, April 24-May 1, 2003, London, UK
Hysteria II - Revival, CBGB's 313 Gallery, March 5-28, 2003, New York, NY
9/11: Brooklyn Artists Respond, Schafler Gallery, 2002, Brooklyn, NY
Good & Evil, (Video Piece, 3: 5: 7) presented by Brickolage, December 2002, Pittsburgh, PA
Reactions, Exit Art, 2002, New York, NY
New Painting, Mad River Post, 2001, New York, NY

Projects

Daily Constitutional, Ideas & Observations, Issue 3, nyi, Winter 2006, Third distribution @ Scope Miami, Florida, December 2006 info. Available at www.DailyConstitutional.org
Daily Constitutional, Wanted on Craigs List, Issue 2, Between, Summer 2006, First distribution @ Scope Hamptons, Easthampton, NY, info. Available at www.DailyConstitutional.org
* Second distribution @ Scope London, UK, October 2006.
In Search of Inspiration, ADA gathers various artists who are looking for something new. By Paulette Roberts-Pullen, May 10th, 2006, Style Weekly, www.styleweekly.com
Daily Constitutional, Ideas & Observations, Issue 1, Art, Winter 2005, First distribution @ Miami Art Basel, Miami, Florida, December 2005, info. Available at www.DailyConstitutional.org
Art and Run, review of Teach Your Children About Johnny Cash, By Bill O’ Driscoll, February 2, 2006, Pittsburgh City Paper, www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws
Artists Unlimited 20+, selected essays on contemporary art and studio practice, Kerber Publishing House, 2005, Germany, Book available at www.kerberverlag.com
Artist in the Studio, Germany, Portraits and Studio Photographs, Portfolio by Gerald Dunkel, 2004, Bielefeld, Germany, www.gerald-dunkel.de
Critical Review of This is 7, Prague Literary Review, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2004
The Agony and the Ecstasy, BBC Article on Compression, April 25, 2003, London, UK, archive: www.bbc.co.uk/london/entertainment/galleries/dunlop_szalla_g allery2.shtml
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Collections

ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA, acquired, 2006. Contact: Director John Pollard, Tele: 804-644-0100 www.adagallery.com
The Digging Pitt Gallery, Flat files, Pittsburgh, PA, acquired, 2005. Contact: Director John Morris, Tele: 412-605-0450 / www.diggingpitt.com
Pierogi Gallery, Flat files, Brooklyn, NY, acquired, 2005. Contact: Director Joe Amrhein, Tele: 718-599-2144 / www.pierogi2000.com
Jönköpings Läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden, acquired 2005.
Exit Art “Reactions” exhibit collection, prepared by Ellen Kays, Anne Mitchell, Mary Mundy and Maria Santiago, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., acquired 2004.

   

Jason Szalla

Pierogi Gallery
177 North 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211

718-599-2144
szalla@earthlink.net
www.szalla.com




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