ON VIEW: MOONLIGHT & SHADOW

Jeremiah Jossim: moonlight & shadow

On View: January 27 - April 4, 2026

Reception with the Artist: Thursday, March 5, 5:30 - 8:00pm

Artist Talk: TBA 

Jeremiah Jossim’s recent body of work, moonlight & shadow, stems from a fascination with American history and the landscapes he witnessed on road trips across the country. Drawn to a book of Amish quilting during a recent excursion, Jossim was struck by quilts with names such as “sunshine and shadow,” “triple-chain,” and “wild goose chase,” as well as their remarkable affinity with modernist abstraction. In moonlight & shadow, quilting and painting patterns merge with landscapes in the distant vista, traveling along the edges of many of the paintings, encasing or expanding the geometries and spaces within. This selection of new work, which is Jossim’s first exhibition at Laney Contemporary, builds on his bold palette while extending it towards new horizons grounded in the tradition of craft, landscape, and abstraction.

Jossim notes that quilting and making art can both be forms of survival. For many American women in the 18th and 19th centuries, quilting was the essence of warmth and familial continuity; colorful patterns conveyed information, meaning, and legacy. The quilt is historically linked to healing and memory, to spirituality, durability, and way-finding. Having completed radiation treatment in August, Jossim shares: “This body of work is a difficult one to hold in my hands; it's about being sick, like really sick, and not knowing if you'll see next year.” The quilt and the canvas connect the unseen or the abstract to the tangible, the unknown to the known. “Maybe the quilt is the portal bringing me closer to the other side at a time when I wonder about my own continued existence.”

For Jossim, the twenty-eight multi-sized paintings in moonlight & shadow are dream-like in practice, instinctive, and full of gravitation toward the colors of transition between day and night and back to day again. They call attention to spectrums of time and states of flux. His landscapes are vast, grandiose, and at times lonely. Yet there is a bold hue of hope on the horizon with the anticipation of sunrise. 

I felt the sea at my feet,

the crush of shells

and worried about tiny cuts.

But that other place called with a stiff southern wind,

smelling of bark and willow

cattail and cicada.

I hold on to that tiny golden thread.

That is a future.

Painting has a way of traveling.

Each linseed covered brush is a wish,

an island where I can hear the wind running like horses.

-Jossim 2026

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