Jerry Shevick

Jerry Shevick’s photography is rooted in the Buddhist concept of impermanence and, even more specifically, Wabi Sabi. Wabi Sabi is difficult to translate—it’s more of a feeling than an actual concept; however, it implies simplicity and beauty as something ages, fades or changes. The perfectly imperfect.
Jerry has been photographing and printing for the last 40 years. In fits and starts, over the last decade, he has begun to exhibit and sell his work. In 2013, pieces from his series, “And The Past Reared Its Head” were juried into a number of shows and sold, which prompted a more serious approach to his artwork. The series took vintage slides from Jerry’s past, as well as from many others, and through a process of re-shooting and re-imagining the photograph, looks at the impermanence of the image, of time, of family, of life. A follow-up show used vintage, amateur nudes in the same way. A review in Fabric Magazine said, “What looks like the faded slides of one prolific, if amateur photographer, is really Shevick’s heavily curated pickings of found objects in the photo sections of flea markets and estate sales that he’s culled and rephotographed in a fresh, innovative way. The result is a re-framing of the entire experie...

University of Delaware, BA
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New York University Graduate Film School
Hearst Management Institute - Northwestern's Kellog School

EXHIBITIONS
2023

The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
Studio Channel Islands: "Open"; Gallery Group Show
Las Laguna Art Gallery: "Over 50"; On-line Group Show
KBM Gallery: “Mini Packs a Mighty Punch”; Group Show
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: “Art & Ecology”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Applied Science”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Coy”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Small Time”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Non-Sequitur”; Group Show

2022

O’Hanlon Gallery: “Red”; Group Show
Las Laguna Art Gallery: “small works, BIG TALENT”; Group Show
TAG Gallery: “Made in America”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Lingering Feast”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Make Plein”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Mannerist”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Root & Branch”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Festoon”: Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Hurly Burly”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Gleaming Apollo”; Group Show
Los Angeles Art Association: “Fresh Takes”; Group Show
Art Fluent: “Wabi Sabi”; Group Show

2013

Malibu Racquet Club, Malibu, CA: Solo Show
Topanga Fine Art Gallery, Topanga, CA: Group Show
Studio Channel...