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  • The season is shifting in River North. Summer is winding down, and the gallery has changed with it. Luis Kaiulani, a sculptor whose aluminum and wood works have earned permanent installation in public spaces across the United States and the Caribbean, joins the Carousel family for the first time. Adam Umbach's spotlight fills the downstairs.

     

    Upstairs, texture deepens: new works by Zhuang Hong Yi arrive alongside Nemo Jantzen's nail-and-thread pieces and Sylvain Tremblay's layered sculptural paintings. The Chicago Art Fair is on the horizon. There is a great deal to look forward to.

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    LUIS KAIULANI, Now on view in Chicago | Trefle Croise 2289 by Luis Kaiulani

    LUIS KAIULANI

    Now on view in Chicago | Trefle Croise 2289 by Luis Kaiulani

    Luis Kaiulani is a sculptor who works in aluminum, wood, and combinations of both. He cuts, welds, anchors, and paints each piece in direct response to where it will live, so that the final installation achieves what he calls the total harmony of what was imagined in conjunction with the physical place. His public commissions, which span the United States and the Caribbean, bear this out. 

     

    Trefle Croise 2289 is from his Trefle series, the body of work in which the clover form, with its organic symmetry and its suggestion of something found rather than invented, becomes the basis for sculpture in aluminum and wood. The crossed clover brings two lobes into contact with each other, creating a form that is simultaneously botanical and geometric, soft in its associations and precise in its execution. In aluminum and wood, that tension is even more pronounced. The number in the title is the piece's catalog designation. Every Kaiulani is documented, dated, and specific. This is how he works.

     

    Trefle Croise 2289 is his first work at Carousel Fine Art. 

     

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  • Nemo Jantzen, Don't Look Back, 2026 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Luis Kaiulani, Trefle Croise 2289, 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sylvain Tremblay, The Bird, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Nemo Jantzen, Don't Look Back, 2026
  • NEMO JANTZEN THREAD SERIES, Now on view in Chicago | Don't Look Back by Nemo Jantzen NEMO JANTZEN THREAD SERIES, Now on view in Chicago | Don't Look Back by Nemo Jantzen

    NEMO JANTZEN THREAD SERIES

    Now on view in Chicago | Don't Look Back by Nemo Jantzen

    Stand in front of a Nemo Jantzen thread work and the first thing you see is a photorealistic image. A face. Then you move closer. The image begins to reveal what it is actually made of: hundreds of stainless steel nails driven into a wooden board, connected by a single continuous thread that zigzags from nail to nail in precise, layered passes until the image accumulates out of nothing but tension and repetition. 

     

    Jantzen has been developing this technique for years, and it remains genuinely unlike anything else in contemporary art. He works from photographic references, building the image nail by nail, thread by thread, in a process that is as much about time and accumulated precision as it is about the final visual result. His thread works are held in the GEM Museum in the Netherlands, Museum POPA in Switzerland, and the Mandarin Oriental New York. Collectors who own his work include Kobe Bryant, Claudia Schiffer, and Ronnie Wood.

     

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  • Artworks on Display

    • Adam Umbach, “Blue Boi No.2 with Frame (Green with Yellow)”, mixed media painting of a blue lobster within a yellow frame with a green background using childlike technique, his signature style.
      Blue Boi No.2 with Frame (Green with Yellow), 2025
    • Adam Umbach, “Blue Boi No.2 with Frame (Light Blue with Pink)”, mixed media painting of a blue lobster within a pink frame with a blue background using childlike technique, his signature style.
      Blue Boi No.2 with Frame (Light Blue with Pink), 2025
    • Adam Umbach, “Sweet Smells (Yellow Cake)”, mixed media painting of a black butterfly surrounded by flora, with a yellow green background using childlike technique, his signature style.
      Sweet Smells (Yellow Cake), 2026
    • “La Force de la Couleur” , painting by Caroline Dechamby artist from Holland, based in Switzerland. Available at Carousel Fine Art Chicago.
      La Force de la Couleur, 2025
    • “This is not a Rothko- Bleu”, painting by Caroline Dechamby artist from Holland, based in Switzerland. Available at Carousel Fine Art Chicago.
      This is not a Rothko - Bleu, 2024
    • Cédric Bouteiller, D'outremer, 2020
      D'outremer, 2020
    • “March Birth Flowers”, painting by Eric Alfaro artist from Cuba, based in the United States. Available at Carousel Fine Art Atlanta.
      March Birth Flowers, 2023
    • flora, flowers, vase, still life, pastels, pastel colors, pink, white, impressionism
      Wait for Me, 2025
    • Evelyne Brader-Frank, The Kiss, 2025
      The Kiss, 2025
    • “Feeling the Light”, figurative sculpture by Gil Bruvel artist from Australia, based in the South of France. Available at Carousel Fine Art .
      Feeling the Light, 2025
    • “Chicago Sport SQ” , diasec mounted photo by Max Steven Grossman artist from Colombia. Available at Carousel Fine Art Atlanta.
      Chicago Sport SQ
    • “Lust" , mixed media work by Isabelle Scheltjens artist from Belgium. Available at Carousel Fine Art West Palm Beach.
      Lust, 2025
    • Michael Kalish, Nude in Repose
      Nude in Repose
    • “Flutiste”, sculpture by Mariela Garibay artist from Peru, based in Spain. Available at Carousel Fine Art Atlanta.
      Flutiste, 2025
    • “19 Dreams" , painting by Brendan Murphy artist from the United States. Available at Carousel Fine Art Atlanta.
      19 Dreams, 2024
    • “Don't look back”, thread on black board artwork by Nemo Jantzen artist from The Netherlands. Available at Carousel Fine Art.
      Don't Look Back, 2026
    • “Bertie and Buddha” is a mind-bending technique that merges painting and sculpture artwork by British artist Patrick Hugues. Available at Carousel Fine Art, Chicago.
      Bertie and Buddha, 2023
    • “Love Lock Azur Medium II”, sculpture by Roman Feral artist from France, based in Miami. Available at Carousel Fine Art Chicago. The artist's technique involves transforming the ephemeral into the timeless, which has become his signature. He integrates ancestral luxury techniques with the magnificence of butterflies, suspended in endless flight, creating a unique artistic universe imbued with purity and delicacy that captivates beyond languages and borders. Colors of this work : Blue, Purple, Brown, Black
      Love Lock Azur Medium II, 2023
    • Nick Veasey, Smartphone?, 2015
      Smartphone?, 2015
    • Zhuang Hong Yi, Golden Resonance, 2025
      Golden Resonance, 2025
    • Zhuang Hong Yi, Violet Harmony, 2025
      Violet Harmony, 2025