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Guerrero Gallery

May 8 - June 4, 2010

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2700 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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These Are The Days of Miracle and Wonder + These Songs Are True Matt Leines
Opening Reception Saturday, May 8th, 7-11pm --- Alex Lukas Featured Solo These Are The Days of Miracle and Wonder With an awareness of contemporary society’s desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction, the result of a multitude of visuals presented by the entertainment and media industries, Lukas’ work aims to call into question our collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena for disaster. The works in this exhibition depict an intentionally ambiguous near future where cities have been abandoned and overgrown; where communications are carved into trees and scrawled on Jersey barriers; where overturned vehicles and abandoned landscapes reveal the fragility of our society. In addition to Lukas’ works on paper, the artist appropriates photographic spreads of well-known metropolises from vintage publications and transforms these aging illustrations with screen-printing and paint. Continuing his exploration with the cultural fascination surrounding our national mortality, Lukas’ depictions of a potential future strive to examine the fragility of our society and the physical infrastructure built to support it. His work also looks to examine, with a quiet optimism, the worst might not be so bad; that with devastation comes renewal and rebirth. --- Matt Leines Project Room These Songs Are True Leines’ imagined world, which appears to draw influences from pseudo historical and cultural elements, is comprised of a society of extraordinary humanoid characters. Through intricate line work, detailed patterning and collage, the artist presents us with a collection of intimate glimpses of those creatures, masked and obscure, that exist in his world. Progressing from his archetypical style, the works in These Songs Are True mark a departure for Leines into new visual territory, while returning to earlier themes and influences. Leines alludes to multiple dimensions and times, evoking an expression of the imagined, escapism and play. The works evoke a fresh looseness and subtleness amidst his signature tight linework. Evident in the exhibition is an evolution of the elements that comprise his works’ aesthetic.
These Are The Days of Miracle and Wonder + These Songs Are True Alex Lukas, Untitled (001), 14.5inx9.25in, 2010, Ink Acrylic and Silk Screen on 2 Book Pages