Juozas CerniusBorn in Canada, in 1976, Juozas Cernius lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from Concordia University in Montreal (2002), and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004). He works with a wide range of media including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Thematically, he explores oppositional and contradictory aspects of human nature and culture, including the tropes of life and death. Cernius recently exhibited a large site specific sculpture entitled god is great/ god was great at the DUMBO art center’s Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, NY (Sept. 2007). He exhibited at Allen Gallery in New York City, in February/March 2008. He is also a contributor to the art journal, Boot Print. |