NYAB Event - Daniel Turner Exhibition

Daniel Turner Exhibition

The Journal Gallery (106 North 1st St)

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The Journal Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of its second Brooklyn location with an inaugural exhibition by New York-based artist Daniel Turner. This is Turner's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

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Daniel Turner was born in 1983 in Portsmouth, Virginia and lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include "Inside the White Cube" at White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK (2012); "Estate" at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2012); "John McCracken + Daniel Turner" at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (2012); "Directions: Points of Interest" at Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2012); "Bulletin Boards" at Venus over Manhattan, New York (2012); "The Perfect Man II" at White Columns, New York (2011); "Mariana" at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn (2011); "Four Rooms" at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2011); "Expanded Painting" at The Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic (2011); "Modern Talking" at Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania (2011). Turner is the three-time recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship award and is the co-founder of the gallery Jericho Ditch and the artist collective Jules Marquis. He was a visiting scholar at New York University (2009-2010) and has been selected for the Chinati Foundation's 2013 - 2014 residency program in Marfa, Texas.