COPRO GALLERY
TEX BUSS: Fugue State / MIKE EGAN: Spirit Animals / NICK SHEEHY: Feasts
July 8 - July 29, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8, 6-9PM
(left to right) Tex Buss, In Consideration, 36" x 48", oil on panel; Mike Egan, Good Luck with Life, acrylic on wood; Nick Sheehy, Turtle Face, 12" x 12", acrylic on panel
TEX BUSS 'FUGUE STATE' - Copro Gallery presents a solo exhibition by artist Tex Buss. This will be her 1st exhibition at the gallery and features her most recent oil paintings. Tex's work is both illustrative and figurative, and features elements from the natural world. She began studying art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, with a focus in photography and painting. After College she travelled and worked as a painter of signs and portraits. Her love of art took her into varied directions, including an ongoing career in tattooing at Red Kestrel Tattoo, as well as oil painting with a heavy focus on figurative work. Tex has been tattooing in San Francisco for over 25 years.
MIKE EGAN "Spirit Animals" - For his first solo exhibition at Copro Gallery Mike Egan's 'Spirit Animals' consists of a body of work all connected to the theme. 'Spirit Animals' are meant to guide and protect us on specific journeys. I wanted to do a series of paintings about animals and how they play a role in my world as an artist and human being. In this series I've created a world full of black cats, wolves, snakes, lions and more. I choose powerful animals that make me feel stronger. These paintings are about the spirit animals and how they help me in certain situations. However if you look deeper these paintings are about me and what I face in my life. Like everyone I can struggle with depression, anxiety, fear and they can affect how I live my life. By making the art that I make I am able to empower myself and lift myself. You could say that the artwork in this show is my “spirit animal” and it's been inside of me this whole time.
NICK SHEEHY 'Feasts' - For his second mini solo with Copro Gallery, Nick Sheehy presents 'Feasts'. Nick is an Australian-born artist and illustrator living in London. After studying bronze sculpture in the wilds of Tasmania, Nick gave up on art only to re-discover his love of drawing whilst living in London, sparked by an interest in the city’s low brow art, illustration, street art, and graffiti.In his work, Nick explores the dreamlike, sometimes semi-autobiographical scenes and oddball characters that echo from his childhood imagination. Employing a laborious technique, building up layers of texture and thin colour, his work infuses precision and attention to detail with random abstraction and clumsiness.
Copro Gallery, Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., #T5, Santa Monica, CA 90404
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