November 7 - December 2008
Show Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 5-8 pm
Morning Showers | Jeremiah Ketner
Read his recent Interview with Arrested Motion
Jeremaih Ketner, an emerging artist living in Chicago, creates highly engaging animated figures with inspirations from Japanese Techinicolor pop art. In his newest body of work, Ketner blends patterns from nature to develop an original fantasy world. His vibrant color palettes and highly detailed paintings bring Ketner's imagined realities to life.
Ketner has been reviewed in Time Out Chicago, New York Arts Magazine, New American Paintings, and several Asain Art publications, in addtion to being featured in Art News. His work was also showcased in Art Chicago 2005 and Red Dot Fair in Miami with Melanee Cooper Gallery.
Gallery II
Encounters | John Dempcy
Melanee Cooper Gallery is pleased to welcome artist John Dempcy to the gallery in his first show with us featured in Gallery II. Dempcy's concepts are derived from definitions of modulation and modular design guide the direction and expression of his paintings. With these concepts in mind, drops of paint systematically applied to a grid allow the artist to explore shape, color, pattern, tone, rhythm, and mood. The resulting serieal pattern coalesces into an integrated whole, revealing processes and forms that reverberate in nature.
Dempcy received his degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, and exhibits widely throughout the West Coast.