Exhibition Information

(출처 = 워킹하우스뉴욕)

(출처 = 워킹하우스뉴욕)

(출처 = 워킹하우스뉴욕)

(출처 = 워킹하우스뉴욕)

			The combination of smooth and flexible curves and voluptuous, living shapes is enthralling and visceral. It is reminiscent of the speed of an automobile, and enticing as the shine of glossy nail polish. Considering the characteristics and texture of the material, the work inspires machinery, but take another step and you will find a different face of the breathing object.



Jeremy Thomas' first solo exhibition, “Aromatic” is inspired by aromatic compounds found in chemistry and reinterprets the scent of colors and the structure of organic chemical reactions. Benzene rings of aromatic compounds have a hexagonal molecular formula composed of 6 carbon atoms, and the sculptures in this exhibition represent the three-dimensional hexagonal transformation.



To breathe life into the object, the artist begins by communicating with the material. Starting with a flat-shaped iron plate, a basic structure is forged and becomes malleable at approximately 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, in which the heated pressurized air expands and swells. Eventually the inorganic material is organically transformed. 'Organic' refers to the active traits and vitality the object gains in its moment of transformation. Thomas expresses the sculpture has grown rather than been fabricated due to this process. There is constant dialogue between the artist and the material as two-dimensional forms are forged and breathed into to create the three-dimensional structures,‘inflatables’. As life is born, it is the result of a planned but unexpected coincidence.



Thomas, who says “give it some life” to flat and lifeless materials, metaphorically correlates his process to the act of breathing, a chemical reaction that sustains our life. The configuration of carbons and its chemical compounds is what he visually communicates through his body of work.



The colored shadow of the wall sculptures adds even more depth and dimension to Thomas’s work. As if drawing in a space, his own analog technology is combined. His painterly and intuitive use of color is a hybrid between painting and sculpting, a technique based on his university experience of switching majors from painting to sculpture.



Thomas says that before understanding art theoretically and ideologically, the work must trigger an instinctive visual response. His oeuvre constantly swells and expands as he continues to blow life into his visceral objects.



Jeremy Thomas works and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work is located in the public and corporate collections of the Albright Knox Gallery (New York); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona); the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe (New Mexico); the Kunstsammlung F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (Basel); the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Malibu, California); and Fidelity Investments of Albuquerque (New Mexico). 



Suy Kang



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