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Sebastiaan Bremer's work was seen at The Aldrich in The Photograph as Canvas in 2007.

Curator Stephen Maine wrote: Uniquely among the artists in The Photograph as Canvas, Bremer creates painted photographs as his sole form of studio production (with the exception of a recent foray into etching). The artist’s source photos are culled from a voluminous family album, and overlaid with motifs conspicuously drawn from the history of European painting, including that of his native Netherlands. Bremer’s painting technique, ever meticulous, has become exquisitely refined in recent years, and now imparts an idiosyncratic interplay of bravura and intimate spaces. Dead Cock and Contemplative Magpie was completed a month before this exhibition opened, and is typical of this new direction. Employing the deceptively simple device of the silhouette as a point of departure, this piece foregrounds the mental processes of an artist simultaneously coming to grips with his personal history, the shadows of the subconscious, the light of pictorial convention, and the language of representation.