November 2019
Hayley Barker at Bozo Mag
On view: October 6–December 8, 2019 At Bozo Mag, a gallery in a back-house in Highland Park, Hayley Barker’s paintings feel open-ended, as if in the process of becoming. Her portraits and landscapes are made up of small multi-colored brushstrokes that make the works feel alive with movement and activity. In Eclipse, a group of people lounge in a psychedelic landscape, almost indistinguishable from the mountains they sit on. Elsewhere, a figure floats atop a woman’s face, as if portraying an…
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Kathryn O’Halloran at BOZO Mag
On view: January 1–March 1, 2020 Walking down the garden path into Kathryn O’Halloran’s exhibition at Bozo Mag, a small gallery nestled into a back-house garage, it’s hard to distinguish where exactly the exhibition begins. Ceramic works sit amongst cacti and orange trees throughout the yard. Urn, a tear-dropped and thumby ceramic form sprouts flowers out of its sides and a burning incense stick out of its pointed top. As the exhibition unfolds into the gallery space, the show title, Self-Reliance is not…
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Hayley Barker at BOZOMAG
When you walk into BOZOMAG, nestled into a revamped garage in Highland Park, you are confronted with a familiar scene: a large scale, delicately dry-brushed painting depicting the driveway you just walked down to enter the gallery. A towering orange tree, the cactus planted by a friend of the gallery, and the lineup of trash bins flanking the walkway are all faithfully rendered in Barker’s dreamy style. Each of the three works in the show picture a different vantage of…
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Conrad Ruiz at Bozo Mag
In Conrad Ruiz’s “The Gods Must be Crazy,” fire is used to find harmony between the tensions of grief and joy, shock and wonderment, humor and seriousness, and, of course, life and death. Ruiz considers the transience of life, the impermanence of digital mediums, and the destruction that fire is capable of. In one painting, flames overtake a tiger in an Indian cremation ceremony suffused with a sense of tranquility. In another, an exploding Ford Pinto alludes to Ruiz’s father…
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