Zsanet Jeck, www.zsanetjeck.com at Bruce Lurie Gallery, 2736 S La Cienega Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232, (310) 876-1780
“Today Is Life, Tomorrow Never Comes”
will be shown at Bruce Lurie Gallery on June 9th (preview) June 11th (opening night) through June 28th this summer.
Zsanet Jeck graduated from the acclaimed Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. She is a figurative painter. Her paintings are colorful, magical fairy tails about our world. This is her premier show in Los Angeles at the Bruce Lurie Gallery. She has spent the past year observing American beach culture here in Venice beach and will be showing her perspectives and findings with this series of paintings titled, “Today Is Life,Tomorrow Never Comes”.
Ten years ago she chose this title for a painting while studying the landscape’s of Crete. She was observing the remnants of an American hippie colony that was living there in the 1960’s and 70’s. They lived in caves around the mediterranean sea and enjoyed nature and freedom in a magical place. The roots of the hippie movement is in California that arose as the protest to an escalation of establishment power.
The hippie generation belongs to the past but it still influences the present subculture in its essence and fundamental principles. As she observe this society she sees the fact that the hippie image, with all it’s spiritual aspects turns largely to sellable products to buy in a highly consumable society. Within the philosophical spirit the idea becomes superficial and empty when spirituality finds its way into a ready-to-consume culture. She analyze it in a visual way and put her observations down in her paintings. She see this story still in a poetic and sentimental way.
The complexity of this perspective analysis addresses the American tendency to commercialize life with a quick fix. Zsanet Jeck’s understanding and observations fosters a greater dialogue into the American consumer mentality, and the tendency to market a cultural belief system as a fad. The deformation of a belief system overtaken by business puts these consumers in a trap as they want to own these ideas. This oxymoron of buying an idea inhibits one from receiving what that person actually wants to get. On a positive note, Zsanet Jeck’s method and style of painting is to escape to the fairytale world that refills reality with hope.
“Zsanet Jeck is an accurate contemporary observer of both the social and the private. During her search for the exact articulation of our interpersonal relationships in their complexity, she learned to master the diverse technical heritage of western painting. In her work, Jeck represents her subjects as human beings suspended between their dreams or desires and the determining factors which regulate their daily lives, such as their age, family, and social class. This intention is reflected by her choice of colors which despite the inclusion of seemingly conflicting elements is always kept in harmony by means of subtle composition.“
Robert Olawuyi