DENNY GALLERY PRESENTS KIAF SEOUL: JESSIE EDELMAN

August 12, 2023

DENNY GALLERY PRESENTS KIAF SEOUL: JESSIE EDELMAN

Jessie Edelman

BOOTH: A101

Dates
September 6-10, 2023

Location
COEX 1F, Hall A&B, Grand Ballroom,
513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Jessie Edelman is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are windows into luscious, colorful and vivacious scenes which purposefully conjure utopian outdoor spaces bringing to mind memories of vacations and summer days. The artist is looking to tap into the aspirations and fantasies of exploring other places. Drawing from distant memories mixed with future facing desires the artist offers up worlds which are both familiar and yet unspecific. In her review of Edelman’s 2022 solo exhibition Getaway, New York Times critic Roberta Smith described the paintings as “clashing arrangements of gorgeous color; variations in paint-handling and distortions of style, space and scale. They contrast flattening patterns and plunging or tilted depths, modernist sophistication with gleeful naïveté.” The figurative scenes are framed by bold abstract patterns where the artist is exploring the joy in the act of painting, the texture of the paint and her deep fascination with bold color play. She also references the genre Magic Realism in the combination of the otherworldly color and decorative borders alongside the familiar scenes of tables with food and flowers, inviting swimming pools and verdant countryside.