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.
Open September 3 – 26, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, September 3rd; 8-11 PM
Print Release & Signing: Friday, September 3rd; 7-8 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
