EXPO CHICAGO
BOOTH 130 | Profile Section
APRIL 24 - 27, 2025
Navy Pier Festival Hall, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL
Left image: front view / Right image: back view | VERMILION MONUMENT (RED) | 55.5 x 45.75 x 8.25 inches / 141 x 116.2 x 21 cm, acrylic, cast acrylic mounted to linen over brass, wooden base, 2025.
INSTALLATION VIEW | Vermilion Monument (Red) | Front View
INSTALLATION VIEW | Vermilion Monument (Red) | Back View
Left image: front view / Right image: back view | VERMILION MONUMENT (BLUE) | 55.5 x 45.75 x 8.25 inches / 141 x 116.2 x 21 cm, acrylic, cast acrylic mounted to linen over brass, wooden base, 2025.
INSTALLATION VIEW | Vermilion Monument (Blue) | Front View
INSTALLATION VIEW | Vermilion Monument (Blue) | Back View
Left image: front view / Right image: back view | VERMILION MONUMENT (CYAN, RED) | 16.5 x 11.5 x 5.5 inches / 41 x 29 x 14 cm, double sided acrylic, cast acrylic mounted to linen over brass, wooden base, 2024.
VIP PREVIEW | April 24: 12 PM - 5 PM - By Invitation Only.
OPENING NIGHT | April 24: 5 PM - 8 PM.
GENERAL ADMISSION | April 25 & 26: 11 AM - 7 PM | April 27: 11 AM - 6 PM.
JACOB FEIGE
Pentimenti is thrilled to return to the highly anticipated EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall with a solo presentation of Jacob Feige in the PROFILE section at Booth 130.
EXPO CHICAGO brings together over 170 of the world’s leading galleries, offering a dynamic platform for contemporary art.
Jacob Feige’s paintings, including free-standing works, explore the tension between anonymity and individuality in the 21st century, reinterpreting the notion of lost identity in an era shaped by technology. Inspired by Byzantine icons and modernist figurative paintings, Feige incorporates geometric elements into each portrait, creating figures that feel both familiar and uncanny, echoing the complexities of identity in contemporary society.
"Vermilion Monuments" is a series of double-sided, free-standing paintings ranging in scale from small to large. On one side, Feige paints with vermilion red, a reference to the cover of J.G. Ballard’s science fiction short story collection "Vermilion Sands". Both sides feature the same schematic portrait, an anonymous figure depicted from both a frontal and side view. On the reverse side, precise cut-outs are mounted over two central portraits, obscured by layers of vibrant color that enhance depth and create a dynamic interplay of dimension.
Jacob Feige received a BHA (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Stockton University Art Gallery (Galloway, NJ), Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia, PA), RISD (Providence, RI), and the Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL), among other venues. In 2024, he was an artist-in-residence at Alfred University Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany), and in 2018 at the Princeton Cyprus Expedition (Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus). He was awarded a New Jersey Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2022. His work has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, The New Yorker, Art in America, and Title Magazine, among others.
For further information or available works, please don't hesitate to contact the gallery at 215.625.9990 or mail@pentimenti.com