Oct 10

Jeremy Prim

Jeremy Prim is an aquatic painter who is represented by M. Fine Arts Galerie in Boston and has exhibited across the United States, especially on the west coast. His solo exhibitions include dual features at Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles, Michael Birawer Gallery, Atelier Drome, Wittman Estes, and Threshold Gallery, all in Seattle. Jeremies works remain in corporate collections in New York and Los Angeles and private collections internationally.

These aquatic paintings range in several series from incorporating geometric, minimalist lines representing water with just hints of distant clouds to close up cropped incomplete painted works of violent ocean waves to cropped minimalist scenes of ocean shores. Typically ranging in tone of blues, blacks, and whites, these soothing color compositions represent tranquility and a minimalist presentation using ocean water as an almost monochromatic subject matter.

The ocean has drawn artists and poets for centuries, Jeremy utilizes the minimalist traits of water to present clean, purist, cropped compositions which induce soothing meditative qualities. His Water series can be interpreted as quite dark though, as the various violent waves appear almost like slick petroleum with their deep rich blacks and the almost oily, foggy saturation of the atmosphere represented by slight blurring of the paint and the use of cold wax. The Linescape series in contrast invokes a sense of order, harmony, and structure through the representation of seascape and the horizon with just gradient lines. Jermies’ Waves series crops waves and the shore into an almost abstract form, he portrays just enough to enhance the concept of the imagery. These compositions are almost monochromatic if not for the crashing white waves which offer a sense of pleasing tension.

Untitled No. 707 (pictured above) represents contrast with dark geometric lines portraying water and the horizon through symbolism and solid form with subtle angular clouds stretching the viewer’s eye across the canvas. Untitled No. 707 releases a tension between angular three-dimensionality of the clouds while being flattened by the solid lines of the ocean. The clouds form an almost incomplete diamond composition while the high contrast lines of the water anchors the eyes of the audience.