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Keita Morimoto Lingers in the Artificial Light of Urban Nights

Keita Morimoto Lingers in the Artificial Light of Urban NightsIn ‘To Nowhere and Back,’ Keita Morimoto continues his explorations into the interplay of light and shadow.

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Greg Burak: Psychologistics @ MARCH, NYC

Greg Burak: Psychologistics @ MARCH, NYC
Neuroscientists have posited that the conscious mind resembles a theatre. Input and memory coalesce in emotion and ideation. Scenes play out onstage, complete with embedded symbolism and an ever-evolving rationale. Greg Burak’s paintings, too, are not unlike theatre. Compositions are carefully constructed with their inhabitants in mind, methodically planned yet filled with paradoxes. One-point perspective draws attention center-stage while peripheral views fade.
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Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush Portraits Wrap Common Birds in Decadent Patterns

Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush Portraits Wrap Common Birds in Decadent PatternsVasilisa Romanenko paints common birds amid clusters of fruits and flowers, exploring the power of opulence in times of upheaval.

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DL Alvarez “Dormmagory” @ GGLA

DL Alvarez
GGLA is proud to present Dormmagory, Los Angeles-based artist DL Alvarez’s premiere solo exhibition in Los Angeles and with the gallery. The exhibition’s title is an amalgamation of the Italian “Dormire”, to sleep, and the non-gender specific name Magory, meaning knowledgeable and inventive. The combination of the two suggests a kind of sleeping knowledge: an emotional, intuitive or even subconscious intelligence. Relating to this idea of the subconscious, Alvarez crafts drawings whose source imagery is pulled exclusively from textbooks and yearbooks from the latter half of the 20th Century. Stripped of context, the images become a non-linear fever dream of graphite and colored pencil on paper, exploring themes of nostalgia, togetherness, absurdity and the abject.