Samuel Freeman
2525 Michigan Ave
B7
310.449.1479
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Piot Brehmer, #202, Courtesy Samuel Freeman
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Opens Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–1pm)
May 31, 2008 – July 5, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to his figurative portraits that gives them an updated air of the contemporary. Although he uses the same voyeuristic gaze and bases his images on photographs, the nature of his subjects is beguilingly ambiguous: they are either women of questionable professions (i.e. prostitutes and strippers) or those who pose in provocative clothing and suggestive positions as fictional characters in an artist's narrative. Brehmer is paired with fellow figurative artist Robert Yarber, whose cartoony lyricism balances out the sultry seduction in the former's work.
