Joshua Gabriel (birth name Joshua Gabriel Lunsk) is a New York based artist, musician, and graphic designer whose work combines drawing, video projection, murals, music, and performance. jG updates the aesthetic of psychedelia to create a kind of hybrid space in which a mythologized version of his own ego, constructed of variable disposable personae, is at the center. Drawing on his experiences as a visual artist and musical performer in the New York underground, his work leans towards spectacle, drawing on sacred objects and readymades, projecting onto walls, and combining the abstract and figurative in a riot of color. Born and raised in Philadelphia, jG received his BFA from the Tyler School of Art, and his MFA from Brooklyn College. Joshua Gabriel has created large scale murals throughout New York City and has exhibited and performed in the United States.
Selected Exhibitions
(Solo)
2021 EGOMYSTICAL, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Windows at Garmany, James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery, Homdel, NJ
2015 MicroCosmic, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Portraits, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 New Works, Fusion, Santa Cruz, CA
2007 Between the Lines, Dalva, San Francisco, CA
2005 The Hierographyx Installation, Qbix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 On Top of My Game, Teddy’s, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Enter Fire, Mata-Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Bassline Art, Alchemy, New York, NY
1998 Altar Boxes, Fiend Gallery, New York, NY
(Group)
2022 The Secret Garden, Loft 38, New York, NY
2021 Apparitions, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Lumina, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY
2021 iLLUSiONAL, Chashama, New York, NY
2019 It’s summer and I’m running out of ice, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash, 601 Artspace, New York, NY
2017 Form and Force, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Winter Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Reuse Remixed: Small Works Show, Materials For The Arts, Long Island City, NY
2002 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artforms Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 National Juried Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Public Art
2022 Mural, Bedstuy Walls - Thrive Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Mural, Thrive Collective Headquarters, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Mural, IS/PS 30, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Mural, 362 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Mural, Yaar restaurant, Astoria, Queens, NY
2015 Security gate mural, 100 Gates NYC project, New York, NY
2015 Mural, 2 Duck Goose, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Mural, Sneakah Boutique, Teaneck, NJ
2012 Two murals, International Stone Collections, Bedford-Stuveysant, Brooklyn, NY
Discography
(as Joshua Gabriel)
1998 Mixtape 1 (cassette)
1999 Mixtape 2 (cassette)
2000 Movement No. I (album)
2001 Mixtape 3 (cassette)
2001 Movement No. II (album)
2002 Two Turntables, Two Bongos (cassette)
2003 The Midnight Off the Top Freestyle Sessions 1-4 (cassettes)
2004 JOSHUAGABRIEL (album)
2005 21st Century Blues (ep)
2008 Walk the Plank (album)
2009 1 World/Waiting (single)
2010 3rd Chance (ep)
2012 Book of Gemini (album)
(as J-Mythos)
2013 Slide Away (single)
2014 Joans (single)
2015 2,000,000 Light Years (ep)
2016 Everyone is Waiting For You (album)
2020 Piano Flourish (single)
2021 The Sabbatical Suite (ep) with adrienne maree brown