James Ulmer 'Todays Trip' Print Available

Artist: James Ulmer
Title: Today's Trip
Medium: Hand Pulled Deckled 13 Color Screen Print
Size: 58 x 68 cm
Edition: 50
Prices: €367

James Ulmer is a New York based painter who distills memory into flat bright vignettes. Born in 1981 he earned a BFA in Illustration and Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where the Society of Illustrators awarded him the Thornton Oakley Medal for achievement. He began showing in Philadelphia at the legendary Space 1026 collective then moved to Brooklyn and built a practice that merges postcard sweetness with quiet unease. Working almost exclusively in matte Flashe paint he lays down velvety fields of coral mint or butter yellow and populates them with simplified figures animals and household objects that feel lifted from a half remembered childhood book. A couple might embrace on a beach yet a tiny volcano puffs on the horizon a bird casts a shadow shaped like a question mark and a sun the size of a coin repeats like a stamp across canvases grounding the scenes in a ritual geometry. These shifts invite viewers to question what is idyllic and what is uncanny within ordinary moments. Solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Pit in Los Angeles V1 Gallery in Copenhagen The Hole in New York and JJ.Amala in Tokyo have amplified his reputation for blending minimalist forms with narrative suggestion. His work also appeared in thematic shows at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and Salon 94. Public collections including the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art have acquired his paintings securing his place within contemporary dialogues about figuration abstraction and memory. Whether depicting a checkered towel floating like a censor bar or a sailboat gliding through a dreamlike seascape Ulmer continues to transform everyday observations into enigmatic visual poems that celebrate both clarity and mystery.