Keyes
With wildly varied takes on the natural world, painters Josh Keyes and Lisa Ericson bring two separate shows to Thinkspace Projects in Culver City. Keyes was last mentioned on HiFructose.com here, and Ericson was last mentioned on the site here.
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For the Keyes show, “Tempest,” the painter turns to animals once again to tackle ecological issues. The gallery says this of the show: “Working primarily in acrylic on panel, Keyes has perfected his hyperrealistic painting technique, depicting the environmental crisis with startling representational clarity as a trope for the larger human one. It becomes clear that the imagining of this apocalyptic chaos harbors a social anxiety that extends far beyond the concerns of the ecological.”
Meanwhile, the works in Ericson’s show, “Bording Crossing,” “playfully consider the order and balance of natural bodies and systems through their reconfiguration.”The painter, working in acrylics, is known for putting a supernatural slant on flora and fauna.
Both shows run Oct. 13-Nov. 3. See more works from the artists below.
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At first glance, the work of Canadian artist 
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