52nd City

Jeremy Rabus @ Fort Gondo

The city's art scene is really kicking into high gear this weekend. There’s a lot of stuff going on, for a good run down check out Art-Patrol's webpage.

Along with all those shows, I'd like to put a little spotlight on this one.

Jeremy Rabus @ Fort Gondo

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For a few years now a young painter named Jeremy Rabus from Southern Illinois has been making the rounds throughout the city art scene. You’ll find him in group shows at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, at Art Dimensions meetings and recognized as an emerging artist by the St Louis Artists Guild. He’s participated in and curated countless shows in the area and is always on the move either creating or helping out with various projects throughout the region. He just recently relocated his studio to a store front shop on Cherokee St. and has been knee deep in work for his latest solo show which opens Friday Sept 5 (TONIGHT) at Fort Gondo .Compound for the Arts.

Jeremy’s work has an incredible dream, sometimes scary, psychedelic quality to it which suggests innocence, honesty and immense imagination. Abstract acrylic paintings is his medium yet there is something very real about his images. The pictures are formulated by his subconscious making its way into reality by his relentless execution and continual tinkering.

His paintings have names like “Navigating the Gelsphere”, “Tundra at Aziku”, “Cape of Friowe” and you can almost believe these places are real or at least exist in a dreamy animated world populated by Dr. Suessisms or the citizens from Yellow Submarine. Drips of paint intertwine with ballooning shapes all brought together by a perfect color combination. Part story-telling, part eye candy design, his compositions are an impeccable mix of accidents and purpose confidently living together in their own abstract psychedelic landscape.

Here’s the important info –

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The paintings can be viewed Saturday the 6th from 12:00 to 4:00 pm.
Sunday by appointment.