On View: Julián Kreimer Transforms Memory into Art
In Yuyo, a solo exhibition, his striking and introspective works delve into the history of the Americas, family, and self.
Yuyo features more than a decade of paintings and drawings by Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing Julián Kreimer, inspired by the archives of his parents, who left Argentina during the turbulent 1970s.
Yuyo, Spanish for “weed,” blends media and design elements such as paper pulp, linen, illustration, animation, photo slides, and fragments of stationery into richly layered works. Anchored by abstract architectural forms, Kreimer’s recent pieces explore negative space as a metaphor for memory and the psychic landscape.
“It’s where the energy of interaction happens,” says Kreimer. “It’s the fluid we’re all floating through.”
Yuyo is on view at Sarah Lawrence College Gallery through May 8, 2026.
Kreimer is the chair of The School of Art+Design’s MFA program.
Solo shows have been at the Atkinson Gallery at SBCC, TSA LA, Lux Art Institute, and Weeknights Gallery. His work has also been exhibited at 1969 Gallery, the 2021 Armory show, the Morgan Lehman Gallery, and more. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Artcritical. He is a repeat fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. He’s been a frequent contributor to Art in America, and written for Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, as well as numerous museum catalogs.
