Gallery Breakfast with Erik Jeor: A thirst from the soul doth rise

Saskia Neuman Gallery will be serving breakfast in their gallery on Saturday. Artist Erik Jeor will be present to talk about his current exhibition: A thirst from the soul doth rise.

Erik Jeor’s exhibition A thirst that from the soul doth rise offers an intimate series of watercolors of Madonna and child presented in various postures and settings. First and last is freedom, in an almost psychedelic manner. Through a contemporaneous, sometimes sketchy approach, echoes of Byzantine and Renaissance icons appear. Jeor makes the traffic lights alongside the Madonna feel completely natural. In an icon-like sense the meeting of face to face with the figures pictured creates an inverted glance, where the images behold the spectator. Here, the aquarelle is used to accentuate opposites; the water is sometimes playfully reduced, the pigments denser, with a wink towards oil painting. Fingers, a strand of hair, a glance is detached out of floating fields of colour, where the rainbow dips. Likewise, emotions oscillate between closeness and trust, wonder and even, maybe, dread.