July 17, 2021 - August 28, 2021

Artist’s Reception July 17, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

KRCW

as-is.la presents new artworks by Los Angeles artist Kristopher Raos. Ostensibly about the vernacular environment of Los Angeles, such pleasantly familiar content—the commercial streetscape as viewed from a moving car—operates as a kind of placeholder for the artist’s rather more surprising and somewhat more muscular deployment of form. And while the artworks share common imagery and constitute a coherent whole, these seven acrylic on canvas paintings and works on paper speak in several different formal registers—big and small, smooth and textured, vibrantly colored and relatively colorless, oddly shaped and crisply rectilinear, floor-based and wall-mounted—thus proceeding through an inventory of possibilities, the very success of which directs some of our attention (and subsequent questions) back to the white box of the exhibition space itself.

Andy Warhol famously defined Pop Art as “taking the outside and putting it on the inside [and then] taking the inside and putting it on the outside.” Raos, a young Mexican-American building upon both his own earlier experience as a street artist and his current interest in the genre of hard-edge abstraction, has come to a similar conclusion, here bringing the two—outside and inside, streetscape and art gallery—into a richly provocative if necessarily unresolved tension.

Jul 13 Open Late/”7 Days a Week” by Kristopher Raos

July 17, 2021 - August 28, 2021

﻿Artist’s Reception July 17, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

KRCW

Sep 6 Merwin Belin: Condensed

Jul 13 New and Recent Works by Ron Griffin

Artist’s Reception July 17, 2:00pm - 6:00pm