REMA GHULOUM

After Night

Five Car Garage October 24th - Dec 7th

Opens Saturday 24th 12-4pm to info@emmagrayhq.com rsvp for an appt, pls wear a mask


Five Car Garage, in conjunction with Edward Cella Art + Architecture is delighted to present “After Night”, an exhibition of five paintings created this year by Rema Ghuloum. In her own words:

“I haven’t found words for what I paint. I paint experiences, feelings, visions. They paint themselves. They are psychic spaces, psychological and visceral portals that convey the contrasts that are the human experience.

They breathe. They are felt. They reflect emotions that tap into our collective experience. They are memories representing the past, present, and future. They reflect the feeling in your gut at 3 am, the sun at noon, and the fullest moon or that line of a song that repeats over and over like a mantra. They are everything and maybe nothing at all.

They are paintings that cry and sing and laugh simultaneously."

Rema Ghuloum

Rema Ghuloum lives and works in Los Angeles, she received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Rema was a recipient of the Davyd Whaley Foundation Artist-Teacher Grant in 2020, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2018, the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant in 2017, the Esalen PaciPica Prize in 2012, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010, and was an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in 2013 and 2018. Rema’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Times, and Fabrik. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues like Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Et al. Gallery, Hawthorn Contemporary, the Cue Art Foundation, The Pit, UCLA’s New Wight Gallery, Five Car Garage, George Lawson Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, and Arka Gallery in Vladivostok, Russia.

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 Installation at Five Car Garage     
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 Installation at Five Car Garage     
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 Installation at Five Car Garage     
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  After Night, 2020   mixed media on canvas, 52 x 66 in. 
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 Twin Flame, 2020   mixed media on canvas, 72 x 54 in. 
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 Light Body (2020 Vision)   mixed media on canvas, 52 x 66 in. 
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 Sundown, 2020   mixed media on canvas, 54 x 70 in. 
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 Sea, 2020   mixed media on canvas, 54 x 70 in.