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① Artwork:
Studio City Cypress
This painting features a basketball hoop with a missing net, emerging from seven cypress trees. This scene depicts the artist's childhood home in Studio City, part of Los Angeles, California.
This work explores isolation in suburban Los Angeles, where the artist was born. This composition is part of a series of acrylic-based works that are intimate in size and investigate liminal spaces—transitional locations or states of being. Jake Sheiner's work explores how these quiet spaces can be perceived as abandoned or frozen in time, creating a slightly unsettling yet familiar feeling. For the artist, this nostalgia for a place never visited is a part of the Los Angeles landscape and related to its ubiquitousness in pop culture.
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③ Artist:
Jake Sheiner’s cinematic paintings depict a nostalgic Los Angeles landscape that viewers are familiar with through pop culture. Drawing inspiration from Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, David Hockney and Lois Dodd, the artist’s work similarly transforms everyday moments into memorable narrative scenes. Sheiner’s compositions explore the undercurrent of isolation and loneliness underneath the beautiful LA landscape, which is frequently obscured in favor of presenting an ideal self.
BIO:
Jake Sheiner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1986. The artist received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois in 2008.
Solo exhibitions of Sheiner’s work include: At Night and From a Distance at The Lodge in Los Angeles, California (2021); Scenes from My Quarantine at Taymour Grahne Projects, online (2021); and Pandemic Portraits at Alias East in Los Angeles, California (2020).
Group exhibitions that have shown Jake Sheiner’s work include: INT/EXT at La Loma Projects in Los Angeles, California (2022); Double Up at My Pet Ram in Santa Barbara, California (2022); LA Landscapes and Other Pleasures at The Lodge in Los Angeles, California (2022); Sexy XMAS V at The Lodge in Los Angeles, California (2021); GOALS at La Loma Projects in Los Angeles, California (2021); Summer Stage: Act 2 at Auxier/Klein, online (2021); Court Vision at My Pet Ram in New York City (2021); Contemporary Domesticity at Taymour Grahne Projects in London, UK (2021); Beach at Taymour Grahne Projects, online (2021); Inside Voices at La Loma Projects in Pasadena, California (2020); Oh, There’s No Alternative at Hou Yee Chan Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2016); and gooddrawers at Scott Projects in Chicago, Illinois (2008).
Sheiner lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
This painting features a basketball hoop with a missing net, emerging from seven cypress trees. This scene depicts the artist's childhood home in Studio City, part of Los Angeles, California.More
- Framed: 30.8 x 36.8 in.
