Nocturne
Sebastiaan Bremer
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Feb 13 – Mar 21

Sebartiaan Bremer: Storm Breaking Over a Valley – Triptych, 2020
from Nocturne at Edwinn Houk Gallery
(3) archival pigment prints, paint, ink.

From the Edwynn Houk Gallery press release:

Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Sebastiaan Bremer (Dutch, b. 1970). Nocturne marks the debut of several series of portraiture that Bremer has been developing over the course of the past two years, culminating in the monumental triptych, Storm Breaking Over a Valley, 2020. Each unique image in the exhibition is characterized by Bremer’s meticulously hand painted white pointillist dots, however these three new series are distinct in the evolution of the techniques used, as he continues to push the bounds of his hybrid creative process. 

Sebastiaan Bremer: Veronica – Backwards Looking Forward, 2018
from Nocturne at Edwinn Houk Gallery
20″ x 24″ silver gelatin print & ink

Sebastiaan Bremer: Veronica – Backwards Looking Forward (detail), 2018
from Nocturne at Edwinn Houk Gallery
20″ x 24″ silver gelatin print & ink

Sebastiaan Bremer: Nocturne opening at Edwynn Houk Gallery

You can see all the pieces of Nocture by clicking into the Edwynn Houk Gallery website  here. We’ve been working with Sebastiaan since 2007, an overview of those projects can be seen by clicking here.

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), B+W Silver Gelatin Printing, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Exhibitions, Sebastiaan Bremer

Sebastiaan Bremer
Edwynn Houk Gallery / New York
September 12 – November 2, 2013

Edwynn Houk kicks off the fall season in New York with their third installation of works by Sebastiaan Bremer since he joined the gallery in 2011.

Sebstiaan Bremer: Combustion, 2013
Unique hand-painted and carved digital chromogenic print with mixed media
30″ x 38 3/4″

For this exhibition, Bremer draws from Surrealism, Modernism, and Cubism by literally mashing up portions of paintings and photographs from Picasso, Matissse, Brassai and Brandt … which, the gallery press-release terms as “a twisted form of time travel that inserts his own style and inhabits the studios and canvases of artists working before him“.

More from the gallery press release:

Utilizing the artist’s signature style of obsessively applied dots of paint to a photographic surface, and adding etching to his working method, Bremer renders the subjects of this series in a dream-like haze of abstraction. Drawing from Surrealism, Modernism, and Cubism, the artist collages photographs and paintings together to create a seductive labyrinth of entangled bodies and art.

Sebastiaan Bremer: Combustion (etching detail), 2013

And in his own words:

I knew that this form of mark-making wasn’t invented by me and that these obsessions and desires were not unique to me. Looking further, to see how so many artists have been obsessing about the same ideas, and wrestling with the same problem of how to carve one’s place in time, gave me a feeling of going home. At some point I thought to work directly on the art of my predecessors, to follow their carving, their lines, and replace them, rejuvenate them, re-form them. I collaged some together, changed their orientation, overlaid and blended them with other images. I don’t dream that I could ever improve them, but I was intrigued by the possibilities of blowing fresh air into them, shifting and reanimating them for a new run. To layer Picasso, who changed styles at the same pace as he changed muses and loves and passions, on top of his greatest competitor, Matisse, along with works by Brandt and Brassaï— this mix of histories and desires and ways of looking feels right to me.

Sebastiaan Bremer: Les Grands Jeux, 2013
Unique hand-painted and carved digital chromogenic print with mixed media
30″ x 38 1/2″

You can see a longer selection of works from this series by clicking here. We’re happy to say that we’ve been working with Sebastiaan since 2007, an overview of those projects can be seen by clicking here.

Tags: Digital-C Printing, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Exhibitions, Sebastiaan Bremer

Eyes
Sebastiaan Bremer
Houk Zurich,
June 9 – July 28, 2012

Sebastiaan Bremer started the summer off with an amazing opportunity presented to him through the Edwynn Houk Gallery. Somehow, he was giving the blessing to rework a little known series of close up images of iconic artists eyes originally shot by the British master, Bill Brandt. Max Ernst, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti among others become the jumping-off point for Bremer’s signature approach of applied dots of ink and paint.

Sebastiaan Bremer: Eye # 8, 2012
Digital-c print, ink and paint

Sebastiaan Bremer: Eye # 7, 2012
Digital-c print, ink and paint

Sebastiaan Bremer: Eye # 1, 2012
Digital-c print, ink and paint

Tags: Digital-C Printing, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Exhibitions, Sebastiaan Bremer

Nudes and Revolutions
Sebastiaan Bemer
Edwynn Houk Gallery
March 3 – April 23, 2001

Sebastiaan Bremer, Susanna Surprised by the Elders, 2001
44″ x 64″ Digital C-Print with Inks and Acrylics

Sebastiaan Bremer, Waterfall, 2008-2001
Digital C-Prints with Inks and Acrylics
75″ x 83″ overall / each panel: 75″ x 41.5″

Sebastiaan Bremer, Judith’s Anatomy Lesson, 2011
48″ x 43″ Digital C-Print with Inks and Acrylics

Tags: Digital-C Printing, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Exhibitions, Sebastiaan Bremer