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Okuda San Miguel’s “The New Digital Love” at Corey Helford Gallery.

Currently on view virtually at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, California is artist Okuda San Miguel’s solo exhibition, “The New Digital Love.”

Okuda’s work can be classified as pop surrealism with a clear essence of street art or urban art. His artwork is composed of geometric prints and multicolored ephymeral architectures that help blend with grey bodies and organic forms. These pieces of artwork often raise contradictions about existentialism, the universe, the infinite, the meaning of life, and the false freedom of capitalism. They help ignite conversations about the clear conflict between modernity and our roots.

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Bruno Pontiroli’s “A Rebrousse-Poil” at Corey Helford.

Currently virtually on view at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, California is artist Bruno Pontiroli’s solo exhibition, “A Rebrousse-Poil.”

From his dreamlike visions, Bruno Pontiroli conjures up surreal and fantastic universes. His terrifically twisted oil paintings offer mind-bending explorations of the relationship between humans and animals, painting limber cows doing impressive handstands or an over-eager man embracing a large walrus, much to its chagrin. Pontiroli shares “My aim is to turn the narrow vision that we have of the world upside down and disturb our imagination while shaking an accepted reality with images that are as incomprehensible as they are familiar. Distorting a symbol or mixing opposing universes allows me to question the identity of things so that I can reinvent them in a world with no logic. Everything is possible.”

Regarding Pontiroli’s newest body of work entitled A Rebrousse-Poil (English: Against the Grain), he shares “I tend to represent iconic animals that are easily and quickly identifiable in my work. I focused in on the main subject, the animal, and then I tried to simplify my universe by not representing all the other characters or creatures that my paintings are usually surrounded with which allowed me to give more importance to my subject.

The way I work is like the way a child plays with modelling clay or a building set for instance. In this series, I played with shapes again. I tried different combinations, twists and deformed them until they found a different nature. Something that I believed to be interesting. I paid attention to the physical characteristics of the animal I chose to represent whether it be its fur, scales, or colors, and I tried my best to render the natural beauty of each animal. Through this new series of paintings, I would like to make people laugh and to arouse a kind of curiosity, a feeling of beauty, complexity, and madness. I want to give the audience the desire to be interested in our universe and to relish in the positive despite all the negativity.”

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Lola Gil’s “Intimate Flowers Bloom” at KP Projects.

Brand new paintings by artist Lola Gil from her solo exhibition, “Intimate Flowers Bloom,” on view at KP Projects in Los Angeles, California.

Lola says of the new body of work, “Throughout my entire career I’ve had a particularly obsessive drive to understanding how relationships and connections with others work. Over the past 12 years I have practiced a lot of introspection, and learned how to take ownership of who I am and why.  Through my paintings I’ve been able to tap into my subconscious in order to discover truths, find growth, and open my eyes.  These new paintings naturally evolved through subconscious vision, during a collapse with a close relationship, life in isolation, and the powerful decision to be my own source of strength. The outcome offers not only emotion, but a sense of humor, irreverence, and obscurity, under a lens of empowerment. Artists have the ability to help the viewer feel, relate, think, empower, grow, and inspire. This show is for anyone who needs these particular inner movements.  For anyone who needs something, whether it relates to relationships, or any particular experience that requires personal growth. For those who may see themselves in these portraits, or who need and wish to escape with a narrative.”

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That’s a deep… dock.

by Penzilla