In the center of a vast ravine a clown with bright red oversized shoes hovers dejectedly, a small star floating by his head. This character, plopped inexplicably into a luscious desert landscape, isn’t the only anomaly in Will Bruno’s painting, Rugged Beauty (2021). One shirtless man sits hillside, pointing up and the clown and the […]
At Smart Objects in Echo Park, Justin Chance’s “Low-Life” pulls fiber processes to their breaking point. His wet and needle felted quilts are sheathed in a layer of thin silk that he treats irreverently—rips and tears on their surfaces function as subtle painterly details. In “Dying” — perhaps a pun on mortality as much as […]
From KCRW's Art Insider Lindsay Preston Zappas: "It was somewhat unnerving stepping into 'MIDDAY,' a solo show by Alex Alessi. In his oil paintings, eerie figures float against jet black backgrounds, each skewed to an uncanny angle as if hovering in a harrowing netherworld. By denying the viewer the ability to see these subjects head-on, Alessi […]
On View through November 2nd. Off of Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, a certain kind of magic brews in the paintings of Derek Paul Jack Boyle. His paintings are potently absent of human life, but the objects in them become animated in unexpected ways—like the infamous dancing broomsticks in Fantasia. In one, eerie pink stairways are plopped […]
