Ashes of Us (An Inventory of Memory)
The Hill Street Country CluB and Linksoul Lab are proud to present Ashes of Us ( An Inventory of Memory). Harley Cortez is a multimedia visual artist, musician, and filmmaker. His work has been shown in Los Angeles, NYC, and Tokyo. Raised in Los Angeles, CA and Queens, NY. he lived in Guatemala for brief stints in his youth. Influenced by literature, cinema, and musicology, his work is often a juxtaposition of those. His expressive works often look like manipulated scenes, raising questions that challenge our perceptions of what the painting actually is. As well as being a musician, poet, and filmmaker, he uses all mediums as an art platform to express an ever-changing existential notion on what it means to be alive. Using various modalities his paintings, drawings, abstract pieces have been used on record covers, film, design, and art direction.