Spanning  from fall 2014 until the early Spring of 2017, the body of work here represents the paintings produced at studio V, La Bodega gallery, in the historic chicano quarter of Barrio Logan. Owned and run by Chris Zertuche and Soni López-Chávez, La Bodega gallery is what I’d consider “THE’ premium venue of what was formerly, a diminishing and stagnating art scene in San Diego.
Working ostensibly toward group shows, the work I produced during the period, was not only imbued by the geography of the area, but by the potent spirit of the Chicano art movement and its cause, which became for myself at least, a kind of wider polemic and social conscience in the work I produced, as well a stylistic shift to the brighter palette of pop surrealism.
And whilst a move necessitated leaving what was a very happy and fruitful period, in retrospect, the work produced there represents what I believe is a structured, manifest series from beginning to end.

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