project overview
In January of 2022, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery commissioned Powerhouse Arts to screen print portraits for a self-titled solo exhibition by artist Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
The exhibition presented a series of new portraits and abstract photographs as a reflection on materiality, memory, and intimacy. As a complement to the 2D photographs hung on the wall, two large sculptures — one reminiscent of a freestanding cross-section of a wall and the second akin to a wooden cube or gallery pedestal — explore the structural aspects of images.
For the project, the Powerhouse Arts Print team screen-printed pearlescent portraits taken by the artist directly onto the white outer facades of the wooden pedestal. Though the Powerhouse Arts Print team is known for its ability to screen-print in large formats on paper, this process marks the largest sculptural object upon which the team has screen-printed an image, with each facade measuring nearly 6 feet tall by 3 feet wide. Recessed tunnel-like niches have been constructed into the pedestal through which guests are invited to view an image face-mounted onto the back opening of the tunnel.
Powerhouse Arts also contributed several of the printed images that comprise the freestanding cross-section of the wall with one full bleed image (divided into three panels) printed on the front and several images intersecting one another at the back.
The exhibition opened to the public at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on January 20, 2022 and remained on view until February 26th, 2022.
Project Team Members (Powerhouse Arts Staff): Luther Davis, Dennis Hrehowsik, Elias Leon, Angélica Maria Millán Lozano
Commissioner/Funder/Presenter(s): Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Other Fabricators: Chroma Center
