Jeremy Sharma

Jeremy Sharma (b.1977) works primarily as a painter but his body of work encompasses video, photography, drawing and installation. His current practice investigates the notion of art as a reflection of a conscious life that observes it in the age of mechanical, industrial and digital reproduction and interconnectivity. It addresses our relationship to modernism and our place in time and space in an increasingly fragmented and artificial reality.
Therefore, he is interested in the dialectics between picture-image-painting-object. He blurs the sources of what a painting could derive from: an image manipulated with a computer, a previous painting, a postcard etc.; often one process leads to another, and then is developed into a system. His works are typically categorized in serial work groups as an investigation into a range of appearances of the same theme or method.

The paintings address the distinct processes of painting and acknowledge its own vast tradition and history including abstract expressionism, the monochrome, the readymade, conceptual art and minimalism. Though the paintings work as a series or as an installation, each individual work has a uniqueness and integrity. For the viewer, it’s about sustaining the act of looking to the act of making by observing details and nuances in the artwork.

Sharma is also interested in the sensation of paint on a surface that creates tactility, illusion and depth, and how it responds to light, gravity and space. He describes them as abstract paintings that straddle the ground between realism and idealism.

Submitted by Primo Marella Gallery