Constellations
Barak Zemer
May 20 – Jun 24, 2023
Constellations
Barak Zemer
May 20 – Jun 24, 2023
Barak Zemer
May 20 – Jun 24, 2023
The Fulcrum is pleased to present Constellations by Barak Zemer. Spending long periods of time stuck in
traffic, isolated from reality by the contours of his vehicle, Zemer often has found himself using the car
as his studio. This approach has allowed him to look at the often ignored space of the car as a stage for
action and exploration of the banal moments between destinations and another. Unable to look through
the viewfinder while concentrating on driving, Zemer renders incidental compositions in camera that
reflect the topography of the space between destinations. Objects are installed hanging from the roof o the car, and the camera shoots random alignments of objects swinging in the moving vehicle. The destinations themselves, like the spontaneous images made in the car, are background for similar moments of serendipity, full of small actions waiting to be captured by the camera. Infast-paced city like Los Angeles, we often forget to look at the small things, the many constellations that make up the bigger picture that is every day.
Barak Zemer Lives and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Jerusalem, Israel, Zemer graduated in 2013 with an MFA from the USC Roski school of Art and Design and completed his BFA at the Bezalel Academ of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Zemer has shown in venues such as Night Gallery, Altman Siegel gallery, Ballroom Marfa, CEPA Gallery Buffalo, The international Photography Festival in Tel Aviv, Fusedspace Joan Gallery, Arturo Bandini, Ltd Los Angeles and the Haifa Museum. His work has been written abou and reviewed in numerous publications such as Aperture Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, L Weekly, Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Carla), and The New & amp; Bad Magazine. Zemer is currently senior lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design.
traffic, isolated from reality by the contours of his vehicle, Zemer often has found himself using the car
as his studio. This approach has allowed him to look at the often ignored space of the car as a stage for
action and exploration of the banal moments between destinations and another. Unable to look through
the viewfinder while concentrating on driving, Zemer renders incidental compositions in camera that
reflect the topography of the space between destinations. Objects are installed hanging from the roof o the car, and the camera shoots random alignments of objects swinging in the moving vehicle. The destinations themselves, like the spontaneous images made in the car, are background for similar moments of serendipity, full of small actions waiting to be captured by the camera. Infast-paced city like Los Angeles, we often forget to look at the small things, the many constellations that make up the bigger picture that is every day.
Barak Zemer Lives and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Jerusalem, Israel, Zemer graduated in 2013 with an MFA from the USC Roski school of Art and Design and completed his BFA at the Bezalel Academ of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Zemer has shown in venues such as Night Gallery, Altman Siegel gallery, Ballroom Marfa, CEPA Gallery Buffalo, The international Photography Festival in Tel Aviv, Fusedspace Joan Gallery, Arturo Bandini, Ltd Los Angeles and the Haifa Museum. His work has been written abou and reviewed in numerous publications such as Aperture Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, L Weekly, Contemporary Art Los Angeles (Carla), and The New & amp; Bad Magazine. Zemer is currently senior lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design.
Watering Hole
Peter Tomka
April 1 – May 6, 2023
Watering Hole
Peter Tomka
April 1 – May 6, 2023
Opening April 1, 2023
Peter Tomka
April 1 – May 6, 2023
Opening April 1, 2023
‘Watering Hole’ is the site for a new body of work by Peter Tomka at the Fulcrum Press. The works on view range from the artist’s self-portrait to those of his friends, strangers, celebrity figures and WPA-commissioned statues. Tomka combines his original photography with found images of Rock Hudson, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Jerry Buss suspended in celebratory moments. The Westlake Theatre and Hollywood sign in the backgrounds of two separate pictures map his work in the cultural milieu of Los Angeles. His allusion to cinema can be seen not only in the subject matter but also in his process, where he projects onto gelatin silver paper to create a single photograph.
Portraits of the ‘Power of Water’, a figure fixed in a now defunct and barren fountain and the statue ‘Prometheus Bringing Fire to the Earth’ are relics that bear the marks of time. They both have years of accumulated damage and while Prometheus has one hand missing, he is depicted with the remaining one left intact. He is bearing the torch and waving at us from the watering hole, a place for happy endings.
Peter Tomka is an artist and founder of No Moon LA. His work is held in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside.
Portraits of the ‘Power of Water’, a figure fixed in a now defunct and barren fountain and the statue ‘Prometheus Bringing Fire to the Earth’ are relics that bear the marks of time. They both have years of accumulated damage and while Prometheus has one hand missing, he is depicted with the remaining one left intact. He is bearing the torch and waving at us from the watering hole, a place for happy endings.
Peter Tomka is an artist and founder of No Moon LA. His work is held in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside.
Muscle Memory
Tanya Brodsky
Juliana Halpert
Janna Ireland
Blake Jacobsen
Malerie Marder
Jeffrey Stuker
February 11 – March 18, 2023