Western Project
3830 Main St
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Cole Case, Image from When We Did Believe In Magic And We Didn't Die, Courtesy Western Projects
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Nov 15, 2008 – Dec 24, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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A new series of paintings by LA-based Cole Case, When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die is best described as autobiographical surrealism. With a writer's literary sensibility and a visual style combining rich saturated colors, folksy line-drawing, and a zeal for cognitive dissonance, Cole crafts a suite of images that both depict and obfuscate their own narrative content. A camping lantern is lit for reading Dune; an intimate table for two is cramped against a dominant brick wall; and the sunny grounds of a sculpture park are in fact a cemetery lawn. These and a host of other mismatched stories blend humor, fact, and fiction into a disarming series of possible truths.
