Three Chilean artists comprise a group exhibition currently being exhibited at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles.
Victor Castillo, who now lives in L.A. after moving there in 2010, returns to the gallery with Pure Pleasure. The collection is made up of 12 black and white paintings and an installation, and mark a departure from the artist’s previous work in vividly-coloured acrylics. Blending the innocence and naivete of early Disney cartoons with more modern, adult themes, Pure Pleasure‘s monochrome pallete and sinister backgrounds can be seen to imbue the works with the underlying menace of fairytales.
Mauricio Garrido and Claudia Peña are both first time exhibitors in the US. Garrido can claim Elton John among his celebrity collectors; constructing multi-layered collages, he overlays eroticism, religious and classical iconography and the natural world in surreal tableaux. Peña is also fond of odd constructions, presenting paintings with fragmented, almost dissected elements which need piecing back together to find the narrative.
The diverse representation of Chilean art ends 22 February.
Mauricio Garrido,
Pin ups Wednesday, 2013
collage 42 x 52 cm
Victor Castillo
Luna
22 x 30″, ink on paper
Victor Castillo
Kiss on my List
22 x 30″, ink on paper
Mauricio Garrido,
Serie Pin Ups Sunday, 2014
collage 44 x 37 cm
Claudia Peña,
La Jardinera, óleo sobre tela, 2009
150 x 200 cm
Victor Castillo
Wild Drum
22 x 30″, ink on paper
