Jan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings
April 27 – June 3, 2023 509 West 27th Street, New York
  • Jan-Ole Schiemann’s second solo exhibition at Kasmin will present new paintings and works on paper from April 27 – June 3, 2023 at the gallery’s flagship location, 509 West 27th Street, New York. Schiemann’s energetic constructions are characterized by boldly abstract figures, vivid cumulous color clouds, and an assertive, instinctive use of shape and line. The artist’s most recent compositions meld fragments and echoes from his former visual vocabulary with new devices that together push the language of gestural abstraction into new territories.
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  • Jan-Ole Schiemann Poseur, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Poseur, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Poseur, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Poseur, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280...

    Jan-Ole Schiemann

    Poseur, 2023

    charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas
    90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches
    230 x 280 cm
  • The artist’s complex compositions begin as references drawn from archives of vintage animation and his own meticulous sketches. Using the...
    The artist's studio. Photography by Mereike Tocha.

    The artist’s complex compositions begin as references drawn from archives of vintage animation and his own meticulous sketches. Using the edge of his rectangular picture plane as the first rule of play, Schiemann begins a game of decision-making, toying with the tension between process and image as he builds layers of charcoal, ink, gesso, and acrylic. In both his drawings and this new series of large-format horizontal paintings, Schiemann’s ongoing interest in the automatist instinct has led to expansive open areas at these edges. In the paintings, these are articulated as unprimed canvas that intersperse sharp fields of color in which the artist’s brushwork creates new dimensions of flux. Tools and materials from the studio, including cardboard sheets and wooden supports, contribute to the application of standardized marks of paint across canvases—an echo of Schiemann’s earlier work with stencils.

  • "This gestalt produces something spectral—a liberated phantomic body. It is a ka that has been reduced to a semiotic roadmap of touch and sensation, a trail of bronchial hands made of exposed nerves." —Andrew Woolbright, The Brooklyn Rail
  • These various compositional strategies, expressed uniquely in each work, are anchored by the repetition of a loosely-rendered pair of pawed...
    The artist's studio. Photography by Mareike Tocha. 
    These various compositional strategies, expressed uniquely in each work, are anchored by the repetition of a loosely-rendered pair of pawed hands. One green, one red, they refer to the manual process of making (both in painting and in more general terms), the existential dilemma of “either-or,” and the effort to cohere thoughts pulling in contradictory directions.
  • Jan-Ole Schiemann Extractor, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Extractor, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Extractor, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Extractor, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Extractor, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280...

    Jan-Ole Schiemann

    Extractor, 2023

    charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 
    90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 
    230 x 280 cm

  • "With graphite pencil and a floret of lime and lilac wildflowers, Jan-Ole Schiemann writes his name into the art history canon, rubs it out with the side of his hand, and stencils it back in roaring hyper-font." —Estelle Hoy

  • Throughout, Schiemann conjures semi-discernable forms: petals, coiled springs, hot air balloons, an eye, piano keys, and headlike graphical outlines. Culled...
    The artist's studio. Photography by Merike Tocha.
    Throughout, Schiemann conjures semi-discernable forms: petals, coiled springs, hot air balloons, an eye, piano keys, and headlike graphical outlines. Culled from both contemporary visual culture and his vivid imagination, these are subjected to destabilization in deference to the painting’s internal logic. Distinct in style from his older paintings, which collapsed the figure-ground relationship, Schiemann’s new works propose clearer divisions of space, utilizing color as an engine of this process.
  • Jan-Ole Schiemann Insectoid, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Insectoid, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Insectoid, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280... Jan-Ole Schiemann Insectoid, 2023 charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas 90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches 230 x 280...

    Jan-Ole Schiemann

    Insectoid, 2023

    charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas
    90 1/2 x 110 1/4 inches
    230 x 280 cm
  • Works
    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, Insectoid, 2023
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    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, Extractor, 2023
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    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, Greater Fool, 2023
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    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, o.T., 2023
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    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, Poseur, 2023
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    • Jan-Ole Schiemann, o.T., 2022
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  • About the Artist

    Jan-Ole Schiemann
    Portrait of the artist. Photography by Mareike Tocha.

    Jan-Ole Schiemann

    Cologne-based artist Jan-Ole Schiemann (b. 1983) expands and challenges abstract painting traditions through a process of mark-making, constructing images that are simultaneously sophisticated and playful. With a practice steeped in gesturalism, lyrical abstraction, and the history of twentieth-century animation, Schiemann’s large-scale paintings and works on paper burst into frenetic clarity, kindling a dialectical query between process and image, paint and surface, and the spatial divisions produced therein. Recent solo exhibitions of Schiemann’s work have been staged at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany (2023), Wentrup, Berlin (2024), Kasmin, New York (2023), Nino Mier Gallery, Marfa, TX (2022), and elsewhere.

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