New Image Art Launches Solo Shows with Artists Dave Kinsley and Carlos Ramirez

New Image Art launches solo shows with Dave Kinsley and Carlos Ramirez!

DAVE KINSEY | MOMENTARY BLISS January 14, 2017 - February 11, 2017

OPENING: Saturday, January 14th, 7-10PM

New Image Art Gallery is pleased to presents Momentary Bliss a solo exhibition with Los Angeles based painter Dave Kinsey. The show will feature a series of paintings in the artist's noted abstract style which alternates between form and loaded paint filled strokes proving to further affirm Kinsey's ability to create expressionistic forms of tonality, texture, and emotion. After residing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for some years and recently relocating back to a downtown Los Angeles studio. Kinsey brings forth evocative pieces that reflect the frantic nature of his personal experience, and to a larger extent, the chaotic experience of man and nature in the contemporary world.

CARLOS RAMIREZ | COMPLEJO DE CRISTO Y VAMPIROS January 14, 2017 - February 11, 2017

OPENING: Saturday, January 14th, 7-10PM

New Image Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition: Complejo de Cristo y Vampiros with Coachella based painter Carlos Ramirez, half of the artistic duo of The Date Farmers. This will be Carlos' first solo exhibition outside The Date Farmers and will feature mixed media paintings, found object sculpture, in the Date Farmer's style. Ramirez, highly influential in his genre of stylized paintings has swayed a younger generation's approach to symbolical and politically influenced subject matter. Carlos' paintings continue to evolve becoming denser and more meaningful while remaining alluring and magical.

His works are layered reflections of a polymorphous identity; foreign yet familiar perspectives existing in a liminal reality between cultures, collecting ephemera and detritus, and combining it into playful assemblage pieces. Ramirez's work often speaks of the inequalities within Mexican American communities and champions the common man as underdog.

His work is tremendously resourceful, scavenging for creative materials within various abandoned desert locales. The work is replete with layers and textures intertwined with the political while being disguised as popular. Works include a combination of house paint, sparkly stickers, bilingual text, corrugated metal siding, and wheat-paste posters with deeply layered figurative workings. Snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other bits of nature from their hometown appear mixed in with Catholic symbolism and commercial imagery, giving brand logos and religious icons the same attention to detail.