Jeremiah Chechik
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Selected Works
Biogenesis
Explorer, 2023-2024
Blurring the lines between between subjective and objective, between truth and illusion: the work inhabits a median zone that lies between.
The work explores ways of connecting our human desire to understand and imagine what lies outside our immediate perception.
By tapping into the aesthetics of nostalgia and connecting that to what appears to be a historical record, our subjective memory imagines worlds outside our own. Worlds that have long disappeared and worlds that are yet to be fully formed.
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Biography
Biography
USA , 1955
“To create these unique, one of a kind images I begin with a central idea or intention. I describe this as if recalling a fading dream, hanging on to its fleeting memory. I use generative AI to further refine the poetics of this notion which generates a seed of a work or a visual notion. I then apply stylistic approaches more akin to sculpting. I remove elements, add to them, rework them and distill the visual outputs as inputs are emphasized or weighted, changed, blended and then digitally painted. In this flow: I find myself in a kind of syncopated relationship with my own photography, historic photographic techniques and modern printing techniques and materials. I use a host of digital tools that encompass generative sensibilities and tools. They include Dalle 3, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Leonardo, GPT4o, Photoshop, Topaz, Luminar, and Magnific. And finally, I adjust the overall tonality to embrace the specific feel of the final material - in this case glass, focusing on how light refracts and reflects off the surfaces and the inks. I explore ways of creating that deepen the emotional reaction to the work, using history, memory, and fiction fused in a what appears to be a scientific method and its photographic record.”
Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955, Jeremiah Chechik studied theatre and film at Mcgill University. Jeremiah Chechik has been an early innovator in laser holography, a fashion photographer for Italian Vogue, as well as an award winning commercials, film and television director and producer. His name is on multiple patents, having pioneered streaming video on the internet. Chechik has consulted for Nokia and BMW, lectured at Anneberg School of Communications, USC Film School, UCLA and is on the staff of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His photographic work spans 40 years. He calls Venice CA home. A master of digital tools, Jeremiah Chechik achieves a syncopated relationship between historic photographic methods and modern printing techniques on metal. Utilizing multiple generative programs and tools to evoke our collective sense of cosmic wonder, he presents views of and from other strange worlds. Chechik constantly compares and contrasts the way we used to see and the way we see now, underscoring the cognitive frameworks embedded within the visual conventions of different eras and our own collective memory.
His works have been exhibited in many museums, including the Museum of Art and Design Buenos Aires, The Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (California) and currently a solo show of his Explorers series at the Stamford Museum (Connecticut).
Chechik's exhibitions include Galerie XII, Los Angeles, CA; LichtundFire Gallery, New York; Yiwei Gallery Photo Shanghai, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Architecture and Design, Buenos Aires; ArtexArte, Buenos Aires. Upcoming exhibitions include Stamford Museum and Nature Center in CT and The Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA.
Previous Exhibitions:
ArtexArte - Buenos Aires August 2018 - Neorealismo (group show)
Museum of Architecture and Design - Buenos Aires Sept 2018 - The Uncanny Valley (solo show)
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles - Sept 2018 - Out in The Street (group show)
BrightMoments - Venice CA 2019 - Paintless (solo show) Show Gallery - Los Angeles Nov 2019 - Days Among Stones (solo show)
LichtundFire Gallery New York - March 2023 group show - Out of Orbit/OuterOrbit
Yiwei Gallery - Shanghai Photo - April 2023 - 3 Artists
LichtundFire Gallery New York, Sept 2023 - Wings of Desire (group show)The artist
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