Jake Freilich

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Giovanni’s Room is pleased to announce Jake Freilich’s first exhibition with the gallery, presenting a single painting installation from his moiré series.

Moiré patterns appear when two or more similar patterns, with transparent gaps, are overlaid and slightly offset. The effect becomes most noticeable when the layers are moved and are commonly found on computer screens or printing processes as accidental, unwanted distractions. Here, a concentric halftone image of the Bronson Caves—an area in Griffith Park, just north of the gallery, that has served as a famous film location for the past hundred years—is repeated in black, green, and red to create a person-sized moiré. Rather than sliding screens, however, the visual interference in this case is activated by a viewer’s movement. Additionally, photographing the work can amplify or alter the circular bands, since the camera’s pixel grid becomes a third (or fourth) pattern in the interaction. 

Jake Freilich (b. 1993, Los Angeles, USA) is a painter and teacher based in Los Angeles, California.  He received a BA from Bard College in 2015 and an MFA from University of Southern California in 2019. He makes paintings that explore paint’s history and capacity for movement. He’s participated in group exhibitions with LA Nomadic Division, Murmurs Gallery, House of Seiko, The Candlewood Arts Festival, and One Trick Pony.