Southampton, NY – Tripoli Gallery is pleased to present Jonathan Beer’s first solo exhibition at Tripoli Gallery Southampton. Jonathan Beer | Memory Palace will be an immersive environment in which the artist’s vision is presented through installation, sculpture and painting. From April 13th through May 1st, the artist will be on site, transforming the gallery. An opening reception on Saturday, May 2nd, from 6 to 8 pm, will mark the conclusion of Beer’s residency and the start of the completed exhibition. The exhibition will be on view at 30a Jobs Lane, Southampton, NY through May 25th, 2015.

Memory Palace simultaneously implies the artist in situ and his realms of memory—as it inhabits different rooms within the psyche. This exhibition will serve as a culmination of Beer’s experiences thus far, a totality of the inspirations that he carries; allowing motifs to take form within a created atmosphere.

Time of day underpins much of Jonathan Beer’s artwork—serving both formal and symbolic intentions. Sunset becomes a metaphor for the American Dream—a romanticized, idealized state of wholesome perfection. Its darker counterpoint is dusk—whereby the myth is dimmed and the obscurity of night sets in. Beer paints the gallery walls into actualized sunset and dusk backdrops; beneath them his memory palace is vastly manifested. Elements within Beer’s work, drawn from sources as diverse as painted billboard signs, roadside altars in India, memories of his Romanian father’s chainsaw-carved Brancusi replica, and the news, overlap and interrelate under the broader themes of false fantasy and truth revealed.

Jonathan Beer Project Blue Book, 2015 astroturf on found black velvet painting 15 x 20.75 inches
Jonathan Beer This is Cool, 2015 wood, astroturf, spray paint, silicone, plaster, plexiglass, acrylic, foam and enamel 32 x 13.5 x 20.5 inches
Jonathan Beer The Ambassadors, 2015 acrylic and permanent marker on canvas drop cloth 56 x 66 inches
Jonathan Beer Romance in the West, 2015 oil, enamel and permanent marker on sintra 17 x 16 inches
Jonathan Beer Benjamin West, 2015 oil and enamel on sintra 40 x 60 inches
Jonathan Beer Iwo Jima Redux, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 18 x 13 inches
Jonathan Beer Fun House, 2003 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 18 x 13 inches
Jonathan Beer A Ripe Sense of Entitlement, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14.5 x 9.5 inches
Jonathan Beer Baltimore, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 18 x 13 inches
Jonathan Beer Left Handed Minnie, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 18 x 13 inches
Jonathan Beer Red Creek Road, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14.5 x 11 inches
Jonathan Beer Swaggering Idiot Returns, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14.5 x 9.5 inches
Jonathan Beer Talking at the Edge of a Catastrophe, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14.5 x 9.5 inches
Jonathan Beer Ugh, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14.5 x 9.5 inches
Jonathan Beer Night Vision Family Portrait, 2015 acrylic on canvas drop cloth 14-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches
Jonathan Beer Boy Scout Years, 2015 oil, acrylic, pigmented silicone, permanent marker on sintra 17 x 16 inches
Jonathan Beer A Vacation from Vacation, 2015 oil, acrylic and enamel on sintra 17 x 16 inches
Jonathan Beer Endeavor, 2015 acrylic, oil, enamel, pigmented silicone and permanent marker on sintra 17 x 16 inches
Jonathan Beer Newburgh Mirror, 2015 oil and enamel on sintra 17 x 16 inches
Jonathan Beer Newport II, 2015 plywood, acylic, paper, foam, plaster, sintra, pigmented silicone and spray paint 53 x 24 x 24 inches
Jonathan Beer Please Help, 2015 acrylic and pigmented silicone on canvas drop cloth 56 x 66 inches
Jonathan Beer Rode Hard and Put Up Wet, 2015 oil and acrylic on canvas drop cloth 48 x 60 inches
Jonathan Beer Dairy Island, 2015 wood, silicone, enamel and acrylic 83 x 42 x 20 inches
Jonathan Beer Brisk, 2015 oil and enamel on sintra 67 x 51 inches
Jonathan Beer Long Letters to the Evening, 2015 oil, enamel, oil stick on coroplast 24 x 24 inches
Jonathan Beer They Them Us, 2015 acrylic, sintra and wood 60 x 20 x 20 inches
Jonathan Beer A Tired Heart, 2015 oil, acrylic, astroturf on sintra 17 x 16.5 inches
Jonathan Beer Friedlander, 2015 wood, sintra, acrylic and joint compound 84 x 11 inches