surreal city scapes @white walls
A show opened Saturday evening at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco that comprised a beautiful spectrum of city scapes, from the dark dystopic to airy and free to altogether psychedelic. The show was a feast for the eyes as each artist is exceptionally skilled in presenting well wrought works that demand the minds attention from corner to corner.
The post apocalyptic style city scapes of Alex Lukas are hauntingly gorgeous. Often using wide swathes of paper Lukas layered each piece with silk screen, collage, spraypaint and more. The effect of his layering grabs you in side the work and in to his fantastical visions of the city after floods, fires and who knows what. Mercifully free of people the landscapes do not evoke suffering but a kind of earthly decay we arrogantly forget in our ever higher and wider construction forward. Lukas the artist is pictured here in the button down with his pal. 
The next artist, Amy Casey, creates fantastical uses of space and buildings by removing their moorings to the street, sidewalk and earth. Disembodied these structures in which we live and work are able to float free on the page, in an elegant choreography with one another. Her pallet and form are bring a sensible weight to the airy images making it seem an almost plausible scene to have houses held by ribbons across the page. 
Artist Chris Pew presents his colorful orbs and spheres that evoke a space scape feeling throughout his works. The precision of his lines is dizzying almost a technical rendering of distant hemispheres, yet his anchoring of the shapes on the canvas makes it almost seems as though it is everyday life through a kaleidoscope. The freeness of this work is sealed to this planet with this consistent palettes and somehow grounding presentation of infinite depths. Artist pictured here with beer.
