Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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			Various Small Fires is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Alex Becerra’s debut presentation in Asia titled Prelude to Understanding. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery.
 
Becerra approaches painting with the aim to summon embodied responses, enrolling the viewer in an experience that links vision with the emotional body. Using oil-paint in copious qualities, Becerra builds dense surfaces and pictures that are raucous with color, gesture, and images. Often, Becerra’s paintings have an element of montage; many moments in time are layered into a single painting, reflecting the cacophonous and disjointed scroll and distraction of contemporary life. 
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