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Jeff Kraus
Painting & Mixed Media
b. 1985, Kalamazoo, MI
Lives and works in New York, NY
Multi-disciplinary artist Jeff Kraus's practice centers on painting, photography, and printmaking. His approach is immediate, compulsive, and rhythmically expressive, marked by spontaneous gestures dragged, scratched, and pressed into surfaces. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal, and Emergent Magazine.
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Multi-disciplinary artist Jeff Kraus's practice centers on painting, photography, and printmaking. Krausās approach is immediate, compulsive, and rhythmically expressive, marked by spontaneous gestures dragged, scratched, and pressed into surfaces. This performative mark-making animates textured environments populated by eroded, quasi-architectural fragments that vibrate between presence and decay. These hazy, fragmented landscapes are deeply rooted in personal photography, transforming intimate memories in to dreamlike compositions that explore the tension between nature and technology, memory and transformation, permanence and impermanence.
Blending digital and physical processes, Kraus creates immersive, atmospheric works that hover between transience and permanence. His practice is often grounded in specific locations critical to the making of the work, evoking a nostalgic yet corporeal awareness in the viewer, holding them in the immediacy of experience while mapping distant, unplaceable terrains.
Kraus has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal, and Emergent Magazine.
EDUCATION
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Davis Lake, 11 Newel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 My Bunny the Snake, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Megalith, Gaspard Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 95 Feet Deep, Saugutuck Center for the Arts, Saugutuck, MI
2013 Conditions, Gaspard Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Proximities, Tappan Collective, New York, NY
2024 Forward, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Limen, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2020 To all our absent Dialogues, Warbling Collective ā London, UK
2019 Re: Re: Re: Patterns, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Pace staff Exhibition, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2019 How it is, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Painting in the 21st Century, Site: Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Future has no presence, Asphodel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Half a Wave, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Millennial Pink Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 The Jump Off, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 Wielding Now, Tappan Collective, Culver City, CA
2016 Seriality in the Archive, Have Company, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 The Steezledorf, Rox Gallery, New York City, NY
2014 Free, Gaspard Gallery , Grand Rapids , MI
2014 Rituals, Gold Pane Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Field Studies, Culture Works, Holland,MI
RESIDENCIES
2020 Pada Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Early Leathr, published by New Archive
2017 Emergent Magazine, published by Adeo
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