Trickle Down Economics
We’re All Gonna Eat the Rich
Jeremy Sims is a mixed media artist exploring trends in contemporary design, primarily in neo-minimalism. Historically, a socialistic design style intended to make quality living essentials that were beautiful, and used the base materials to their fullest potential without spending any time on decoration. Contemporary designers have reinterpreted the original philosophy to instead focus on total production cost. Decoration has been reincorporated into the production of commodities, because the creator now adds vinyl paneling to particleboard to make it look like cast plastic, or some other more valuable material. The result is objects which are cheap to produce and appear trendy but are functionally lacking.
A homes interior space is a playground in design politics made with (and without) intention. When objects are designed to just be sold, by the time they begin use their purpose has already been fulfilled. The modern functional object is in a constant state of existential threat between the significance projected by the owner, and the manner in which it is a by-product of an ad campaign.
While Jeremy's work is made within a range of mediums, He see's them as part of the same single body of work. Glaze chemistry (a historically industrial practice) is a language that Jeremy uses to revisit the shapes and forms of the abstract expressionist mind-scape paintings. The idea that each object sitting in a space also contains its own pictoral space touches on something inherently fundamental about the intimate relationship one has with the objects a person uses to facilitate living. A small cup is a mural size abstract painting when its owner holds it to their lips.