May 2021
Roberto Gil de Montes at Park View / Paul Soto
After 40 years living in Los Angeles, Roberto Gil de Montes recently moved to Mexico, and his new landscape inspired the new body of work on view at Park View / Paul Soto in West Adams. Tropical locales heavily feature throughout the eight paintings, as his figures contend with their environment, sometimes struggling, but never in states of duress. In some works, the body becomes submerged in water—in one painting a bobbing head wades within a choppy ocean, and in…
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Alex Olson at Park View / Paul Soto
Alex Olson’s paintings often play with illusionistic space, presenting us with nesting patterns, paintings within paintings, and surfaces that peel back like ripped pages to reveal layers underneath. She uses paint as a technician, highlighting the breadth of what the material can do. “My goal isn’t to transport the viewer,” she once said. “It’s to offer up everything on the surface for the viewer to parse out, no additional text required.” The artist’s new self-titled exhibition at Park View /…
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Mark Armijo McKnight at Park View / Paul Soto
At Paul Soto in West Adams, a suite of small grayscale prints by photographer Mark Armijo McKnight span the gallery. All are landscapes in the pastoral sense, although McKnight focuses on quiet hilltops flanked with lanky dead branches and spanning dunes that feel endless and apocalyptic. Dotted within these moody scenes is the occasional nude male figure, each sporting a skull mask. Same stand sultry and solitary while others lounge on the earth, eyes closed and arms akimbo. Their presence…
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