Last Evenings on Earth: Opening Reception
Art opening and live music. Artists: Katie Herzog, Aitor Lajarin, Max Aaron Morse and Walter Sutin. Band: The Cardielles. At a moment when the territory of contemporary painting seems heavily colonized by proposals focused on its phenomenological and material qualities, Last Evenings on Earth is an exhibition of drawings and paintings presenting an embrace of narrative. In these works, the plot is a result and also a leitmotif of the making process and its material origins. The plot, as described through figuration, is key for both artist and viewer. It is a tool -- an engine that gives shape to the pictorial happening, driving both the artists’ and viewers’ interest. The Cardielles play Southern California garage and surf-punk at its lo-fi finest.