Rebecca Brewer Veit Laurent Kurz Locus Amoenus: Extinct Flame

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Rebecca Brewer and Veit Laurent Kurz, "Locus Amoenus: Extinct Flame" (detail), 2025, water, wood, aquatic plants, rocks, bricks, cob, pigments, phosphorescent paint, 56" x 96" x 96"

Rebecca Brewer

Veit Laurent Kurz

Locus Amoenus: Extinct Flame at Catriona Jeffries

The evening screening is Wednesday, July 30, at 9 pm

Please bring a blanket or chair for seating.

Rebecca Brewer and Veit Laurent Kurz’s Locus Amoenus: Extinct Flame is a site-specific, cultivated pond delineated by an impassive phosphorescent cube. The vignette emphasizes a modest grotto which rises above the self-oxygenating pool, where a small flame continually burns. Accompanying this courtyard installation are two projected films: Veit Laurent Kurz’s Rise and Fall of Hummerkreis (2024) and Benjamin Saurer’s Candle to Candle (2025) performance with organ.

Rebecca Brewer makes use of painterly abstraction to explore the overlooked and under considered in the human and natural worlds. Brewer received an MFA from Bard College in 2013, and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2007. Brewer’s solo exhibitions include Catriona Jeffries (2023); Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2020); Oakville Galleries, Canada (with Rochelle Goldberg, 2019); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2014, 2016); and Exercise, Vancouver (2012). Brewer’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Oakville Galleries, Canada (2018); Vancouver Art Gallery (2016); The Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2016); Marcelle Alix, Paris (2014); and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2013). Brewer was the winner of the 2011 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Veit Laurent Kurz is a German visual artist based in Berlin, known for his development of a fictional biosphere in his sculptural works and installations. Kurz pays particular attention to the creative spontaneity associated with childhood and adolescence, where the imagination is, so to speak, altered by the imprint of major social and cultural influences. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Kestnergesellschaft and Bonner Kunstverein in Germany, Miguel Abreu Gallery, the Highline New York City, and Le Magasin France. Kurz regularly teaches at the Stanford University Berlin, the Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen, and the Art Academy of Mainz Germany. Kurz is represented by Weiss Falke Gallery, Zurich, and Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin.

Benjamin Saurer was born in Offenbach, Germany in 1977. Originally trained as an organist, Saurer practiced church music from 1997 to 2003 and received his MFA from Städelschule, Academy of Fien Art Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Benjamin Saurer lives in Ununge, Sweden and plays in the Ununge Church.