Subliminal Tasks is happy to current Earthquake Nation, a solo exhibition by Echo Park-based artist Rob Sato, that includes a brand new physique of drawings, work, and collaborative textile works. Rooted in his each day drawing and dream documentation apply, Sato explores the strain between the chaotic forces that form our existence and the necessity for relaxation and restoration. With a layered interaction of humor, horror, and sweetness, the exhibition is each a private reflection and a broader meditation on the literal and metaphorical tremors that outline modern life.
“Rob Sato’s artwork lives in an exciting zone the place seductive, colourful, surreal landscapes invite exploration however paradoxically trace at ominous unhealthy journeys lurking over the horizon,” Subliminal Tasks proprietor Shepard Fairey notes. “Sato’s work conjure Willy Wonka’s edible sweet backyard the place the superb line between scrumptious and lethal is essential to the thriller and journey.”
Set in opposition to the backdrop of his profession in illustration and animation, and rocked by tectonic cultural shifts as seen by the window of Echo Park, Los Angeles, his house and artistic base for almost 20 years, Earthquake Nation is a homecoming for Sato. “Drawing is my primary supply of play and my primary instrument for seeing and considering,” the artist displays, “This physique of labor is marked by a interval of making an attempt to commune with the world I encounter on daily basis, and to make artwork extra intuitively than ever.” Mixing figuration, abstraction, and experimentation, Sato excavates the paradoxes of sleep by dreamy, fragmented compositions that fluctuate between the coexistence of life’s unstable cycles and languor.
Underscoring the significance of grounding in neighborhood and place, the exhibition additionally highlights Sato’s collaborations with native artists, together with Subliminal Tasks alumni Ako Castuera, multidisciplinary artist Rosie Model, and pure dye knowledgeable Graham Keegan, whose contributions translate Sato’s drawings and work into textiles. The interdisciplinary works offered in Earthquake Nation are each a reckoning and a release- an invite to relaxation, replicate, and reimagine as we shift inside non secular, bodily, and cultural unrest.
