Joshua Gabriel (b. Joshua Gabriel Lunsk) is a prolific American artist who creates iconoclastic, metaphysically charged images and music. His work spans a variety of media, with a focus on line drawing, genre-blending music, public murals, video projection and live musical performance. Most recently jG manifests installations which recombine and alchemize all of the above into a nameless form which imbues physical space with the EGOMYSTiCAL, a term invented to describe the idea that our egoic journey is guided and permeated by the mystical and spiritual planes of existence toward self-knowledge, and ultimately transcendence into the greater consciousness. Born and raised in Philadelphia, jG attended the Tyler School of Art, later moving to Brooklyn, where he emerged into the NY underground as a visual artist, DJ, music producer, and graphic designer. Joshua Gabriel has exhibited and performed throughout the United States, self-released a catalog of original music and DJ mixtapes, and has created large scale murals throughout New York City.
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)
2023 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
2024 Mural, PS 282 with Thrive Collective, Brooklyn, NY
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
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)
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
2024 Saint State Street: Burden Down (ep)