Israel Campos: Scorched Earth
closing reception on February 7th from 6-9pm
Event Types: Visual Arts
Jan 11, 2025 11:00 AM — Feb 8, 2025 5:00 PM
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville
(864) 214-6046
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville is excited to share its next exhibition, Scorched Landscapes, a solo exhibition with new work by L.A.-based printmaker and interdisciplinary artist, Israel Campos. The exhibition will run from January 11th - February 8th, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday January 11th from 6-9p.
In Scorched Landscapes, Israel Campos explores Chican/o/a/x motifs to examine aspects of Mexican-American identity amidst environmental and cultural destruction as it is seen and felt within Los Angeles, California. Campos leverages the flatness and lack of perspectival illusionistic space recognizable in the Mesoamerican codices, incorporates figurative stylizations, and works with material metaphor; making paintings on the same material used in Mesoamerica– amate–a paper pulp made from wild fig tree bark. By using historical iconography and contemporary cultural signifiers, Campos places our current moment firmly and imaginatively within a longer timeline–one that encapsulates the past to ask questions about our future. In doing so, he embarks on answering those questions using an allegorical narrative that embraces renewal and regeneration while confronting the violence of environmental calamity with storytelling and symbolism that has been particularly visible in Los Angeles, where raging wildfires and destructive flash flooding disproportionately impact the Latino community due to their large presence in the agricultural sector.
