March 16 - May 13, 2023; Artist reception Thursday, March 16, 6-8PM
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, HYBRID PAINTINGS, AND VIDEO
Many millennia before art was exhibited in galleries and illuminated with track lighting, paintings decorated the walls of caves where they were enlivened by the flickering of torch flames. The fugitive light animated the Ice Age depictions of animals while also rendering their forms ambiguous. Visitors could look at them forever and never see the same picture.
Naomie Kremer achieves an equivalent effect utilizing far newer media. Manipulating photographs of her paintings in video editing software, Kremer projects the moving images onto the canvases, accentuating the internal dynamics of compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. "Uncertainty is more stimulating than certainty," she says. "The state of uncertainty is dynamic."
The dynamics of uncertainty are at the core of "Terra," Kremer's 18th solo exhibition at Modernism Inc. Created during the anxious years of the pandemic, as Kremer was in the midst of moving her studio, these paintings and hybrids manifest her reckoning with instability, and her recognition that the personal and planetary shakeup provided an opportunity for unprecedented creative development.
On these canvases, patterns emerge from the concretion of chance events. For example, "Teeming" turned out to evoke a map of Earth from space. Sometimes, the patterns have more than one valence. "Ring Cycle" could be interpreted as a representation of tree rings or constellations.
For Kremer, this ambiguity captures a deep truth about reality. "From the galactic to the microscopic, there's a visual relationship," she says. "My work always has a fractal quality." Like her digital hybrids and the cave paintings of Lascaux, Kremer's works on canvas appear different each time they're observed.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO AN OPENING RECEPTION
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 16TH FROM 6:00-8:00PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
show less
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, HYBRID PAINTINGS, AND VIDEO
Many millennia before art was exhibited in galleries and illuminated with track lighting, paintings decorated the walls of caves where they were enlivened by the flickering of torch flames. The fugitive light animated the Ice Age depictions of animals while also rendering their forms ambiguous. Visitors could look at them forever and never see the same picture.
Naomie Kremer achieves an equivalent effect utilizing far newer media. Manipulating photographs of her paintings in video editing software, Kremer projects the moving images onto the canvases, accentuating the internal dynamics of compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. "Uncertainty is more stimulating than certainty," she says. "The state of uncertainty is dynamic."
The dynamics of uncertainty are at the core of "Terra," Kremer's 18th solo exhibition at Modernism Inc. Created during the anxious years of the pandemic, as Kremer was in the midst of moving her studio, these paintings and hybrids manifest her reckoning with instability, and her recognition that the personal and planetary shakeup provided an opportunity for unprecedented creative development.
On these canvases, patterns emerge from the concretion of chance events. For example, "Teeming" turned out to evoke a map of Earth from space. Sometimes, the patterns have more than one valence. "Ring Cycle" could be interpreted as a representation of tree rings or constellations.
For Kremer, this ambiguity captures a deep truth about reality. "From the galactic to the microscopic, there's a visual relationship," she says. "My work always has a fractal quality." Like her digital hybrids and the cave paintings of Lascaux, Kremer's works on canvas appear different each time they're observed.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO AN OPENING RECEPTION
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 16TH FROM 6:00-8:00PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
March 16 - May 13, 2023; Artist reception Thursday, March 16, 6-8PM
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, HYBRID PAINTINGS, AND VIDEO
Many millennia before art was exhibited in galleries and illuminated with track lighting, paintings decorated the walls of caves where they were enlivened by the flickering of torch flames. The fugitive light animated the Ice Age depictions of animals while also rendering their forms ambiguous. Visitors could look at them forever and never see the same picture.
Naomie Kremer achieves an equivalent effect utilizing far newer media. Manipulating photographs of her paintings in video editing software, Kremer projects the moving images onto the canvases, accentuating the internal dynamics of compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. "Uncertainty is more stimulating than certainty," she says. "The state of uncertainty is dynamic."
The dynamics of uncertainty are at the core of "Terra," Kremer's 18th solo exhibition at Modernism Inc. Created during the anxious years of the pandemic, as Kremer was in the midst of moving her studio, these paintings and hybrids manifest her reckoning with instability, and her recognition that the personal and planetary shakeup provided an opportunity for unprecedented creative development.
On these canvases, patterns emerge from the concretion of chance events. For example, "Teeming" turned out to evoke a map of Earth from space. Sometimes, the patterns have more than one valence. "Ring Cycle" could be interpreted as a representation of tree rings or constellations.
For Kremer, this ambiguity captures a deep truth about reality. "From the galactic to the microscopic, there's a visual relationship," she says. "My work always has a fractal quality." Like her digital hybrids and the cave paintings of Lascaux, Kremer's works on canvas appear different each time they're observed.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO AN OPENING RECEPTION
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 16TH FROM 6:00-8:00PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
read more
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, HYBRID PAINTINGS, AND VIDEO
Many millennia before art was exhibited in galleries and illuminated with track lighting, paintings decorated the walls of caves where they were enlivened by the flickering of torch flames. The fugitive light animated the Ice Age depictions of animals while also rendering their forms ambiguous. Visitors could look at them forever and never see the same picture.
Naomie Kremer achieves an equivalent effect utilizing far newer media. Manipulating photographs of her paintings in video editing software, Kremer projects the moving images onto the canvases, accentuating the internal dynamics of compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. "Uncertainty is more stimulating than certainty," she says. "The state of uncertainty is dynamic."
The dynamics of uncertainty are at the core of "Terra," Kremer's 18th solo exhibition at Modernism Inc. Created during the anxious years of the pandemic, as Kremer was in the midst of moving her studio, these paintings and hybrids manifest her reckoning with instability, and her recognition that the personal and planetary shakeup provided an opportunity for unprecedented creative development.
On these canvases, patterns emerge from the concretion of chance events. For example, "Teeming" turned out to evoke a map of Earth from space. Sometimes, the patterns have more than one valence. "Ring Cycle" could be interpreted as a representation of tree rings or constellations.
For Kremer, this ambiguity captures a deep truth about reality. "From the galactic to the microscopic, there's a visual relationship," she says. "My work always has a fractal quality." Like her digital hybrids and the cave paintings of Lascaux, Kremer's works on canvas appear different each time they're observed.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO AN OPENING RECEPTION
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 16TH FROM 6:00-8:00PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
show less
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