Every Day's Journey

              Jessie Edelman  BOOTH: A101 Dates September 6-10, 2023 Location COEX 1F, Hall A&B, Grand Ballroom, 513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul Jessie Edelman is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are windows into luscious, colorful and vivacious scenes which purposefully conjure utopian outdoor spaces bringing to mind memories of vacations and summer days. The artist is looking to tap into the aspirations and fantasies of exploring other places. Drawing from distant memories mixed with future facing desires the artist offers up worlds which are both familiar and yet unspecific. In her review of Edelman’s 2022 solo exhibition  Getaway ,  New York Times  critic Roberta Smith described the paintings as “clashing arrangements of gorgeous color; variations in paint-handling and distortions of style, space and scale. They contrast flattening patterns and plunging or tilted depths, modernist sophistication with gleeful naïveté.” The figur