BLAM is pleased to announce the exhibition “MATERIA PRIMA”, curated by Stephen Romano. The exhibition is a mixture of leading contemporary artists, folk art, vernacular photography, esoteric ephemera, outsider art and unexpected images and objects.
Tag: Jel Ena
Stephen Romano Gallery is pleased to present The End Of Things – STATIM FINIS, a survey group exhibition featuring many of the artists that the gallery has exhibited…
The exhibition borrows it’s title from the 1735 Baroque illustrated book “Hieroglyphica or Symbols of Ancient People”, a work by Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe, discovered and published only 25 years after his death…
Of the works in this exhibition, Jel Ena says “”Sanctum Infernum is a dichotomy; contradiction that is present in all of us, the conflict, and our never ending effort to balance them out. The demon appearing in female form was particularly of the interest to me, yet I don’t necessarily see this occurrence as something evil since I am not a religious nor was I raised in religious environment.
The inaugural exhibition “Lexicon Infernali” makes a subtle nod to the 17th century French book “The Infernal Dictionary”, an illustrated catalogue of apparitions of the underworld…
The exhibition examines the place the visionary occupies as the “HYPNAGOGIA”, defined as the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, when mental phenomena such as lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis occur…
