We are very excited to bring you our first summer group show for 2014:
"Spectrum"
The show will be comprised of three unique talents:
John Wentz, Jeremiah Kille, and Yannick Hamon.
Friday, June 20th // 7-10 p.m.
466 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Maximizing our large exhibition space by separating three bodies of work into "mini solo shows" the viewer is encouraged to step inside the world of each artist's distinct visual language. John Wentz is a celebrated local painter and professor at...
We are very excited to bring you our first summer group show for 2014:
"Spectrum"
The show will be comprised of three unique talents:
John Wentz, Jeremiah Kille, and Yannick Hamon.
Friday, June 20th // 7-10 p.m.
466 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Maximizing our large exhibition space by separating three bodies of work into "mini solo shows" the viewer is encouraged to step inside the world of each artist's distinct visual language. John Wentz is a celebrated local painter and professor at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work puts the application of paint on display with mystifying technique and simplified compositions. Jeramiah Kille, a Santa Cruz native, could be seen as a link between the two extremes of Wentz and Hamon, utilizing graffiti-esque abstraction and highly rendered portraiture at the same time. Yannick Hamon was born and raised in Toulouse France, and currently resides in Portland. He exploits commercialization of the female image, and looks at the role of media's influence on contemporary identity. We look forward to seeing you!
About the artists
John Wentz
John Wentz is a contemporary painter whose process resides in an area between rigid technicality and honest expression. Working within the classical idiom of the human figure, his goal is to reduce and simplify the image to it’s core fundamentals: composition, color, and paint application. Wentz limits his palette to blue-greens and reds as a way to explore the emotive qualities and relationships of color while experimenting with cropping and vast negative space as the essence of composition. Paint application and brush strokes are broad and simplified as a means to connect and convey these ideas to the viewer in a way that only painting can.
“In this new series, I wanted to explore and emphasize the essential components of painting: composition, color and the application of paint. In doing so, it seemed necessary, and quite a challenge, to limit and simplify these elements in order to communicate to the viewer that in simplicity there is strength. With just two colors, sparse compositions and nearly abstract mark making, I hope to connect and create a visual dialogue that transcends words.”
Jeremiah Kille
Jeremiah’s work is both inspired by and investigative of finality. Exploring themes of nature and coexistence, he employs a multitude of stylistic approaches which range from loosely abstracted to highly rendered objects. These differing image styles are generally coexisting in a single piece thus creating a juxtaposition of reality and surrealism. He is best known for his narrative work that depicts themes of disenfranchised circus elephants, yet this is only a portion of his already developed, and collected, body of work.
Jeremiah Kille is a native of Santa Cruz, CA who began his career as a custom surfboard builder with strong communal ties to surf & skate culture. He would go on to receive a BFA from San Jose State and currently pursues painting at his studio full time.
“I don’t only appreciate abstract figurative work, I’m drawn to all styles of painting, it only seems natural for me to be experimenting in different styles on my own work. The paintings that are more abstracted seem to speak to another part of my brain, they’re more visceral but also narrative in nature. The two styles (abstract and figurative) both touch on the idea of finality while the abstract paintings have more of an open ended possibility for me while I’m painting.”
Yannick Hamon
Yannick Hamon is born and raised in Toulouse, France. From a young age Hamon had a keen sense of creativity that was against the norm of the typical paint and canvas. Yannick began experimenting with different forms of media, utilizing photography, typography, graphic design, acrylic paint, graffiti style spray paint, creating textures from hardware utensils, recycled items, calligraphy, and resins. Hamon's education in multi media art at the Scriptorium de Toulouse, a school that specializes in typography and calligraphy helped him reach a greater success with his individualized style of art expression. Yannick’s paintings have been exhibited and sold in galleries throughout Europe and the United States. His desire to create for “ALL” without prejudice has helped him grow his business within fashion and customization work for skateboards, interior design, furniture and snowboards. Hamon's style of art is considered Modern Pop Art/Street Art. The technique used for his current series is spray paint, stencil, acrylic, ink and resin. Everything is completely hand made then cured with a gel resin. Non of his work is digital or screen prints.
“I am not political in my art expression at all. Instead I prefer to exhibit what is beautiful around us using vibrant, erotic and feminine imagery. Being respected and recognized on a very human, creative level is what motivates each painting.”