La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s exhibition Upon Yonder, an exhibition showcasing local artists with a taste for mystical and ethereal creatures
OPENS May 3rd at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
SIX artists will fill the walls and floors of the gallery with unusual sculptures and paintings.
Kelley Benes is making our skin crawl with their simultaneously cute yet creepy ornamental reprises of everyday objects. They play with this delicate line between lovely ornamentation and uncanny features.
Environmentally conscious artist Alex Gano is exhibiting sculptures that criticize the industries most culpable for pollution through masterful fabric applique.
Gano re-contextualizes the aesthetics of industrialization into a narrative that shows the exploitative nature of industry, the impact of industry and the inevitable decay of industry. He plays on the abject horror of nature living amongst pollution using known and unknown creatures, molds and slime.
Through my works I find a place where the industrialized world, and nature intersect, to examine issues connected with this ever changing relationship.”
– Alex Gano
Sculpture artist Marisa Sayler exhibits cute and deadly monsters that are simultaneously categorized as flora and fauna. Her work is unconstrained fantasy influenced by folklore, current events, self-revelations and self-expression.
Sküt brings us queer-contemporary sculptures and digital re-masters of the flamingo as a queer icon in his series Flock, with many of these pop-culture icons made of upcycled materials. You know Scott best as original designer and Co-Founder of Grindr, the world’s largest gay social network.
Debi Varvi upcycles maps and reinvents the history of cartes-à-figures by embellishing these maps with allegorical figures representing the history of California. These figures historically add a sense of enchantment to the open spaces while Varvi’s figures take up the expanse of the map becoming the main focus.
Krissta Passanante paints delicate fairies, gnomes and mushrooms in the fairy tale lighting we all imagined in our childhoods. Anthropomorphic figures and plants evoke fantasy and a dream-like quality.