La Luz de Jesus
4633 Hollywood Blvd
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Nathan Ota: An Unforeseen Homecoming (© 2010 Nathan Ota / All Rights Reserved)
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Sep 3, 2010 – Sep 26, 2010
Mondays–Wednesdays (11am–7pm)
Thursdays–Saturdays (11am–9pm)
Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“Nathan Ota's art is both highly refined and hyper-realistic, with imaginary, hybrid creatures blending into vignettes that are part landscape, part fantasy art. The artist's unique strain of pop surrealism comes from an early embrace of "lowbrow" artists such as Raymond Pettibon and Juxtapoz co-founder Robert Williams. With an art-school background in illustration, Ota uses a highly precise technique to animate intricate visions of alienation, isolation, and nature. ”
Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill
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Visit Flavorwire for a gallery of images by Nathan Ota.
For years, Nathan Ota has been pursuing new worlds, both dark and fantastic, to explore in his paintings. Ota has used his stand-ins - a blind bird, a drunk monkey, a one-eyed robot lost in the woods - to travel through dreamlands that hold fantasies and tragedies.
In An Unforeseen Homecoming, Ota's first solo show at La Luz de Jesus, the artist sets out on an expedition that lands him in the unlikeliest destination - the world inside the artist's own studio. The questions that greet him, and the answers that he finds, are at once simple and impossible, hopeful and heartbreaking, permanent and fleeting.
Ota currently teaches at Otis and Santa Monica College. This is Ota's fifth show overall at La Luz de Jesus.
— La Luz de Jesus
