Josh Keyes’ “Tempest” at Thinkspace Projects.
Opening on Saturday, October 13th, 2018 at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Josh Keyes’ exceptional solo exhibition, “Tempest.”
Keyes creates lush, hyperrealistic paintings of our civilization’s dystopian aftermath; a post-human planet left ecologically ravaged and dissipated, sits aflame, overgrown or beneath water, while a new natural order attempts to reclaim its disastrous inheritance. In recent years, Keyes has abandoned the minimalism of his precise, dioramic disaster taxonomies in favor of a more immersive and expanded pictorial frame. These works depict entire environments rather than only its cross-sections in a not-so-distant future state of ecological ruin. Keyes has mastered the satirical posturing of hyperbole as fact with a world so convincingly rendered, and so disastrously surreal, that fantasy becomes alarmingly plausible. In “Tempest,” Keyes conjures an insolvent wilderness facing the eye of a final storm.
The exhibition will be on view until November 3rd, 2018 and should be sought out if in the area.
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