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October 15, 2018
Andy Smith

Josh Keyes, Lisa Ericson to Show New Work at Thinkspace

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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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Josh Keyes, Lisa Ericson, painting

art, Deth P. Sun, painting

April 14, 2015

Berkeley painter Deth P. Sun's work, taken a whole, can be read almost like a comic book. With each solo show, his blank-eyed cat character — whom longtime fans have come to know well — returns for new adventures. Coming up on April 25, the artist has a solo show at Grumpy Bert in Brooklyn titled "Being and Nothingness." This time, his mystical feline tackles themes of global proportions. Set against a backdrop of a star-lit sky, Sun places the microcosm of his protagonist's world in the larger context of the universe. Amid the endearing visuals are bouts of melancholy as our hero ultimately must face his own mortality. "Being and Nothingness" will be on view through May 24.

Travis Louie’s Creatures Return in ‘The Present Past’

painting, Pop Surrealism, Travis Louie

February 17, 2018

Travis Louie’s creatures carry Victorian and Edwardian vibes, rendered in the artist’s distinctive, fantastical style. A show at Creatura House, the new Seattle venue from Roq La Rue Gallery founder Kirsten Anderson, collects a new set of paintings and drawings from the artist. Louie was last mentioned on HiFructose.com here. He and artist Travis Lampe also recently created the art for the card throwing/tile game Vampires vs. Unicorns: Floor War, constructed by game designer Jim DuBois and Hi-Fructose co-founder Attaboy.

Jérémy Demester Returns to Max Hatzler with ‘FTW’

acrylic, Jérémy Demester, painting

March 1, 2019

Jérémy Demester’s paintings carry both vivid movement and spontaneity. In his current show at Galerie Max Hetzler, titled "FTW," the artist offers new paintings and sculptures that are part of a poetic narrative surrounding all of the works in the show. And the sculpture is at the center of it all.

Andy Kehoe’s Fantastical, New Mixed-Media Paintings

Andy Kehoe, painting, Pop Surrealism

October 4, 2017

Andy Kehoe crafts fantastical mixed-media paintings often featuring strange, antlered creatures that move through forests. There’s an unexpected depth to Kehoe’s paintings due to his process of painting on top of layers of poured resins. Kehoe uses “sculpted elements made of polymer clay into his works, submerging the forms beneath the strata of pigmented layers.” The artist has a new show at Thinkspace Gallery titled "Prismatic."

Josh Keyes, Lisa Ericson to Show New Work at Thinkspace

Preview: Deth P. Sun’s “Being and Nothingness” at Grumpy Bert

Travis Louie’s Creatures Return in ‘The Present Past’

Jérémy Demester Returns to Max Hatzler with ‘FTW’

Andy Kehoe’s Fantastical, New Mixed-Media Paintings

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