Jeffrey Nemeroff

Born in Chicago, Jeffrey Nemeroff was raised near Los Angeles where he began studying art at an early age. After obtaining a BFA in art and design, he continued an education in painting at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles and began exhibiting his work. Over the past twenty years, Jeffrey has been included in group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Asia—from a group show at the Asian Art Museum in Fukuoka, Japan, to a solo show in New York’s famous Fuller Building— and his abstract and representational compositions can be found in collections throughout the United States, Europe, Britain, Russia and the Middle East. He currently lives and works in San Francisco near Ocean Beach.

Throughout my life I’ve been continuously drawn to the ocean, and capturing its power and vastness—as well as its vulnerability—is what drives this series of seascapes. With compositions at various levels of abstraction, I’m interested in expressing a feeling or memory rather than a literal representation of the place itself, and that brief moment when the relationship between water, earth and sky will never be the same again. A limited color palette further disassociates the work from reality, emphasizing that this experience—and my fading memory of it—is as impermanent as the oceans themselves.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
Salon Des Refusés, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, California
Small Works Exhibit, 1337 Gallery, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California
20-20 Vision, Far Out Gallery, San Francisco, California

2019
Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, California (solo)
Ephemeral Seas Vol. 2, Far Out Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
Earth Action Initiative Climate Art Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley

2018
Urban Edge, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco California
stARTup Art Fair, ArtSpan, San Francisco, California
Ephemeral Seas, Far Out Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)

2017
Back to the Picture, Valencia St. Gallery, San Francisco, California
Yonder Shop + Studio, San Francisco, California
Natural Wonders, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California
Serenity: Essence, UCSF Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, San Francisco, California (solo)

2016
RAW, Space 151, San Francisco, California
Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hotel Adagio, San Francisco, California

2015
The Way of Art, Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, California

2013
12×12, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, California
SF Travel Exhibition, San Francisco, California

2012
LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California

2011
Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, California

2010
International Exchange Show with Kyushu, Japan, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California
Instincts of Nature, Affinity Galleries, West Hollywood, California

2009
Neuhoff Gallery, New York City, New York (solo)
Craft Story, South Korea
Jeffrey Nemeroff, Phil Kho & Gye Yung Jung, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, California
Gallery ANSEI, Ukiha, Japan
Creator’s Ark Gallery, Munakata, Japan

2008
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Gallery Tokunaga, Fukuoka, Japan
Jeffrey Nemeroff, Ehja Kang & Jesse Whittle-Utter, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California Sirens, Gallery 9, Culver City, California

2007
Gallery Waugh, Los Angeles, California

2002
The Basement Gallery, Echo Park, California (solo)

1997
Furniture Gallery, North Hollywood, California (solo)

1995
Visages, Laurelwood Center, North Hollywood, California

1994
Le Petit Four, West Hollywood, California (solo)
NO, Multimedia Presentation, West Hollywood, California
Salad Daze, Hudson Theater, Hollywood, California

EDUCATION
Oil Painting, Otis College of Art and Design, 1992-1996
BFA Art & Design, California Polytechnic State University, 1986

PUBLICATIONS
Jenn Virskus, “8 Ways To Get The Most Of Your Email List ,” Professional Artist, April/May 2018, p. 30-37
Examiner Staff, “Feb. 7-8: Sonny Smith’s Tour … Ephemeral Seas,” SF Examiner, February 7, 2018
Anna Volpicelli, “The Art Lover’s February To-Do: Noise Pop and PhotoFairs Return,” 7×7.com, January 31, 2018
Carleton Varney, “Art, colors of the sea inspire waterfront designs,” Palm Beach Daily News (print and online), December 15, 2017
Tate Gunnerson, “Thoughtful with Every Brushstroke,” luxesource.com, December 2016
Tate Gunnerson, “Elemental Impact,” Luxe Magazine, November/December 2016, p. 226-231
Mari Rokkan, “Reportasjen,” LofotenPluss Magazine, Summer 2016, p. 10-16
Jeffrey Crussell, Santa Monica, Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA, 2010
Dr. Koan Jeff Baysa, Elements of Abstraction, Neuhoff Gallery Exhibition Catalog, New York, April 2009

RESIDENCIES
2016 North Norwegian Art Centre, Svolvær, Norway