Fremin Gallery Exhibits: Black For More, Nemi Jantzen, Jake Michael Singer. The show will run from October 12th to November 12th

Fremin Gallery  is delighted to present "BACK FOR MORE", a new exhibition featuring the works of NEMO JANTZEN and JAKE MICHAEL SINGER. (The show will run from October 12th to November 12th with an opening reception on Thursday, October 12th from 6 to 8pm). RSVP at info@fremingallery.com

NEMO JANTZEN "Camouflage" 55" x 59" Nails - One Thread

Nemo Jantzen is a visionary artist who has redefined the boundaries of creativity by embracing unconventional mediums - nails and a single thread and glass domes with photography. Those unique approach to art has captivated audiences worldwide, weaving intricate stories through his remarkable works of art. As he delved deeper into his artistry, Jantzen realized that the combination of nails and thread could produce astonishing textures and depth. He saw how each nail could be strategically placed to create a subtle or striking effect, and how a single thread could connect them all, like a lifeline to her creative vision. The work challenges traditional notions of art. His pieces transcend the two-dimensional canvas, taking on a three-dimensional form that left viewers in awe. Using nails and glass domes to build intricate structures, and the thread to weave together narratives that left an indelible mark on the hearts of those who experienced the art.

NEMO JANTZEN "Heat Wave" (White Edition) 62" x 65" Photographs - Glass spheres

Jantzen artistic journey is a testament to the power of imagination and innovation. Through his mastery of unusual mediums, he crafted a body of work that continues to inspire and challenge the boundaries of art. His legacy serves as a reminder that art knows no bounds, and that true creativity can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

The artist in the studio

Jake Michael Singer (b. 1991) experiments with a broad range of disciplines from photography to works on paper, and commands an exquisite mastery of sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the emergent behavior of flocking birds, where the individual is subsumed in the whole, and meditating on the timeless monumentality of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, his Murmurations series speaks to our time. Meticulously constructed, usingup to sixteen thousand meters of marine grade stainless steel for a single sculpture, the Murmurations series establishes his position as one of the leading young sculptors from Africa.

JAKE MICHAEL SINGER "Fresh Murmur" 37" x 27" x 27" Stainless Steel

Singer completed his bachelor’s at Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013, after deepening his learning over the course of 2012 at Central Saint Martins in London. He was recognized by the Eduardo Villa Foundation Grant both in 2016 and 2017, the youngest sculptor yet awarded this. His work features in private collections in South Africa, Germany, Greece, Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has further completed two large-scale public sculptures in Johannesburg: Dawn Chorus, part of the RMB Collection in the Think Precinct, and Roarke’s Evacuation Plan, a landmark on the Jo’burg skyline. In 2020. His work has been exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA, and his large installation, all the Birds Flew with a Harsh Scream (Marmara), 2020, was featured in Iziko Museum’s most recent exhibition Matereality. It is now currently on exhibition at the Norval Foundation. In October 2021, Singer completed Bennu Stassis, a site-specific installation in a former Hamman in Istanbul dating from 1477.

The artist in the studio

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Lisa Sette Gallery Exhibits: Shadow Passes, Light Remains: Binh Danh and Michael Koerner with Benjamin Timpson, January 13, 2024 – February 24, 2024

SHADOW PASSES, LIGHT REMAINS: BINH DANH AND MICHAEL KOERNER WITH BENJAMIN TIMPSON IN THE ATRIUM Shadow Passes, Light Remains: Binh Danh and Michael Koerner with Benjamin Timpson in the Atrium Exhibition Dates: January 13, 2024 – February 24, 2024 Opening Reception with the artists: Saturday, January 13, 2024 1:00 - 3:00pm In the peculiar alchemy of photography, fleeting configurations of light and shadow are transformed into images and objects, capturing a moment, a landscape, a life. In the present moment, when images proliferate and their meanings multiply into an infinity of implications, the experimental photographic works of Michael Koerner and Binh Danh serve as serene documentation of humanity’s deep chemical and mythological lineages. From the aqueous origins of our dark past to the electric thread of current consciousness, we grow in our capability to perceive, comprehend, and transform. Koerner’s poetic chemical assays and Danh’s gleaming testimonial daguerreotypes remind us that we are defined, both physically and philosophically, by values of light and shadow, and that from the shadows of the darkroom, captured light becomes the bright evidence of our existence, humanity, and capability to make and behold beauty. A selection of works by Koerner and Danh will be exhibited at Lisa Sette Gallery along with a single work by Benjamin Timpson, from January 13 to February 24, 2024, with an opening for the artists on January 13, 2024 from 1pm - 3pm. In processing his fascinating tintype plates, artist and chemist Michael Koerner communicates with his lost family in the darkroom; his mother and her family, who were living in Nagasaki at the time of its bombing; his father, who served on a Navy ship during the Bikini Atoll nuclear experiments; and his siblings who perished due to cancer and other genetic anomalies. The voices and traumas of the past inform Koerner’s experiments, illuminating parallels between genetic mutation and the exuberant crystalline fractals that burst unexpectedly from Koerner’s timed chemical exposures. Acid and salt solutions on coated metallic plates result in unpredictable chemical transfigurations, resembling blossoms, clouds, or ghostly limbs, reaching across the photographic surface, transforming the narratives of war and loss into stunning repositories of light and form. Koerner’s works can resemble otherworldly landscapes or radiological medical images, as though with the chemical tools of photography the artist has unlocked a subconscious realm, producing windows into the wordless places of loss, yearning, and hope. In these spaces, which are dense with texture and contrast, Koerner tells the story of war’s effects through generations. “In the darkroom,” says Koerner, “It’s all spiritual and emotional. Eventually, suffering must be processed here.” However, the drive to make art is an equally insistent and powerful force in Koerner’s life, a medium wherein his ancestral cultures, his family’s love, and his own scientific and aesthetic examinations result in prolific and profound works. “There’s beauty in this damage,” Koerner states. In the ethereal reflective surfaces of Binh Danh’s large-scale daguerreotypes, and in the images’ paradoxical subject matter, the viewer is invited to explore the issues of self, creativity, and our simultaneous tendency toward destruction. His portraits of the locations and victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide, many exposed on the delicate surface of a leaf, then transferred to daguerreotype, recall the complex arterial nature of exquisite bas-relief scenes on the temples of Angkor Wat, which are also the subject of several of Danh’s images. “With Angkor Wat,” says Danh, “here is this beautiful architectural achievement of art and religion and Buddhist culture. And it was through the beauty of the Angkor Wat temple that the Khmer Rouge emerged, as the regime sought above all to return Cambodia to its glory days. In order to do that, they had to remove anyone who did not go along with their ideology. This is a theme I return to: the darkness and beauty in our history.” Danh’s poignant, unflinching memorials capture both the moral collapse represented by Tuol Sleng–a former high school turned Khmer prison and execution site–and the sublime deep forests and structures of Angkor Wat. These works invite the viewer to consider how our existence is part of a larger narrative in human history, one that involves both sorrow and transcendence. When you look at the mirror-like surface of a daguerreotype, Danh remarks, “You become part of the image. You are able to reflect yourself onto this landscape.” The intensely silver surfaces of Danh’s works often seem to result in a vibration of shadow and light around the subject’s edges, as though in the photograph we may finally glimpse the complicated interplay of matter and energy inherent in all life. Whether in the stark chambers of injustice or the luminous expressions of monumental gods, Danh’s images record the hidden magic at play in human endeavors. As we contemplate the machinations of human destruction, we are at the same time living in the shadow of the Buddha’s form, rising up from the forest floor. For both Koerner and Danh, processing darkness into light in photographic work is a strategy for bearing witness to the immense mystery of our human existence, bringing forth from the darkness an opportunity to bask in the light of this moment.  In the Atrium: Benjamin Timpson Benjamin Timpson’s luminous portraits are constructed of butterfly wings, each visage delineated through mysterious patterns and complex interplay of color and iridescence. The delicate biological relics are responsibly sourced by the artist, deconstructed according to their unique markings, then pieced over the artist’s rough sketch on a lightbox. A descendant of Puebloan peoples, Timpson’s transcendent works portray Indigenous women who have been the victim of sexual assault and murder – a population that is four times more likely to experience such violence. Timpson’s newest piece, Melodi, is a composition made from a Jeffrey Wolin photograph taken for his Faces of Homelessness series. Melodi, a survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence, is a 5th generation veteran who now works to advocate for special needs, education, and the Native American community in Chicago, Illinois. Timpson sees these portraits as a metaphor for the significance of individual lives impacted by cultural violence, and as a way of examining the horrors of centuries-long exploitation of Native lands and cultures. Yet Timpson considers his work an act of hope and catharsis. The artist remarks: “The butterfly is appropriate because there’s a metamorphosis that takes place with these portraits; my work is about giving voice to the voiceless, and bringing to light the lives of these women.” To request high resolution images, please contact us at (480) 990-7342 or email us at sette@lisasettegallery.com. For 38 years, Lisa Sette has remained committed to discovering and exposing original, intriguing forms of expression. Lisa Sette Gallery exhibits painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and performance pieces from an Images 1) (left) Binh Danh Untitled #19, from the series, "Aura of Botanical Specimen", 2023, photogram on Daguerreotype, 5" x 7" plate size, 11" x 9" unframed, Unique 2) (right) Michael Koerner Brothers #0655, from the series My DNA, 2018, collodion on tin, 6 x 8" unframed, Unique 3) Benjamin Timpson Melodi, 2023, butterfly wings on glass, wood, electrical components, 24" x 18" portrait, framed within custom programmable LED light panel, Unique LISA SETTE GALLERY 210 East Catalina Drive, Phoenix, Arizona 85012 480 990 7342 map | directions GALLERY HOURS Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm Saturday 11am – 4pm And by appointment closed Sunday and Monday #lisasettegallery#finertmagaize#fineartphotofun SOCIAL PROFILES

Tripoli Gallery Exhibits: LAUREN WEST DOWN HERE: SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 29, 2023

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2023 LAUREN WEST  DOWN HERE: SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 29, 2023  Opening Reception: Friday, September 29, 6 – 8 PM TRIPOLI GALLERY 26 Ardsley Road, Wainscott, NY 11975 VIEW PREVIEW

"Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Tripoli Gallery is pleased to present Down Here, by New York based artist Lauren West. Opening with a reception for the artist on Friday, September 29, from 6 – 8pm, the exhibition will remain on view through October 29, 2023, at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott, NY. Lauren West participated in Tripoli Gallery’s fourth Artist-in-Residency, March 8 to April 30, 2023. It was during the residency that she made a new body of work which will be on view in this exhibition.   For Down Here, West made paintings placing the viewer on the ground, peering up. Not unlike the perspective perfected during the Italian Renaissance featured in cupola’s in Florence and Rome, this choice inserts those present into the work from the vantage point of looking up. In conversation with the artist, she revealed that in some of the works, she imagines coming upon a strange, abandoned battlefield, for an unspoken war. In Brief Moon (2023), spears are thrust upward, and doves are present, a symbol that the worst is over. West sees these works as visual serenity, the moment a quietude has befallen upon the landscape. The work has moments of anticipation and silence threaded throughout, and instead of bringing anxiety, they provide solace.  Blue Sighting (2023) has a similar point of view but the landscape is a forest or leafy field. A verdant palette, she’s added a dove wing in the upper right side of the canvas. One can imagine that the dove in Blue Sighting may have been part of the feathered group from Brief Moon, who left the battle in hopes of greener pastures. Entryways are the crux of these paintings, spaces for the viewer and the imagination.    Working mostly on canvas, West also incorporates charcoal drawings (on paper and wood panel) providing another type of tactile energy to scratch the surface. There is a quality of magic realism in Down Here, found in landscapes that only the artist has the key to enter. The exhibition presents what could be seen as painted portals into a world that has gone through challenges and come out on top.  Lauren West (b. 1989, Oxford, MS) is a visual artist from Oxford, Mississippi based in New York City. She received her MFA degree from The New York Academy of Art after obtaining a BFA from the University of Mississippi. West’s paintings often utilize anthropomorphism, references to the American South, peppered with humor, and existentialism. Perseverance in the face of difficulty, is an important element within her compositions, the conceptual force continuing onward despite an unpredictable mortality. Lauren West has exhibited in Mississippi at the University of Mississippi Museum in Oxford, and in New York at Right Behind the New Museum, ChaShaMa, and The New York Academy of Art, among others. She was the fourth Artist-in-residence at Tripoli Gallery, 2023.  TRIPOLI GALLERY, founded in 2009, The Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art was located in Southampton for 10 years before moving to an expansive permanent, 2,400-square-foot space in Wainscott, New York in 2019. Since 2005, founder Tripoli Patterson has organized, produced, and curated contemporary art shows in various locations on the East End of Long Island, in New York City, and Byron Bay, Australia. The gallery has hosted an annual Thanksgiving Collective show for 18 years. Press mentions include Galerie Magazine, Hamptons Magazine, New York Times, Artforum and others.

Above Image: Lauren West, (studio view) Opening, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches (50.80  x 60.96 cm) Image © Tripoli Gallery Inc. 2023    26 Ardsley Road, Wainscott, NY 11975 (Enter via East Gate Rd.) Hours: 10am – 6pm Sunday 12 – 5pm Closed Tuesday Copyright © Tripoli Gallery Inc. 2023, All rights reserved. #tripoligallery#fineartmagazine#fineartfun