Zepster Gallery proudly presents An Electric Dream, featuring Jordan Homstad, Aaron Elvis Jupin and Giancarlo Venturini. These artists explore the concept of world building within the realms of science fiction, AI, virtual reality and fantasy. In order to make the viewer feel like they were interacting with various perspectives, hanging is central to this show. The different heights force the viewer to have different perspectives and view each work as its own realm. Construction-06 and Construction-06+10 is hung slightly lower and in the corner to make the viewer feel like they could step into the work. Cherry Blasters in my Head is hung with the top being a height of 5'7 to match the height of the model. This height gives the illusion that they are looking at the correct height of the person.

 

Jordan Homstad (b. 2000) is a painter and writer working at the intersection of collage, virtual space, eroticism, and human connection. Currently based in Brooklyn, their work has been shown across the United States and abroad, including their most recent solo exhibition All That Surrounds Is Black at RAINRAIN Gallery in New York City (2024). Homstad authored the essay "Writing the Unfamiliar Landscape" in the book C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction (2023), as well as the artist book A Glossary of Hyperhumanity (2023). Homstad holds an MFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design and a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

 

Aaron Elvis Jupin (b. 1991, Fullerton, CA) received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2014. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the galleries Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles, Makasiini Contemporary in Turku, Finland, and Fisher Parrish in Brooklyn, NY. His works have been included in group exhibitions at Karma and The Hole in New York, The Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, CA, Here in Pi􀄈sburgh, PA, Guerrero Gallery, Michael Benevento, and Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles, Museum of Museums in Seattle, and Woaw Gallery in Hong Kong, among others. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

 

Giancarlo Venturini is a painter born and raised in Boonton, New Jersey. His practice consists of paintings that are engaging queer love as it relates to desire, folklore, and the natural world. He attended the Mason Gross School of Art and Design at Rutgers University receiving his bachelors in 2021, then went on to receive his masters degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2024. Venturini has exhibited at Art Basel Miami, Zepster Gallery, Sitting Room Gallery, as well as Spring/Break LA. He was awarded the Post Master’s Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. He currently lives and works in Boonton, New Jersey.