Aryo Toh Djojo’s world is a crepuscular world where the distant buzz of alien spacecraft whirs like a high voltage transformer, arcing between coils with the secret blue language of electricity. This is also the language of Djojo’s paintings, which were recently on view at Sow & Tailor in Los Angeles. They are hard to pin down, they are elusive and evocative, which makes them hit that spot between nostalgia and eroticism. This is your brain on UFOs, weed, and the hot magnesium flash of lust. Inside the hinterlands of Djojo’s hyper-realistic airbrushed canvases, there is the feeling of eternal summer, but also alien abduction, which could be seen as a metaphor for the amnesia of youth—for the forgetting of yesterday to live for today.
Threes Company @ Dan Graham 3.0 In Los Angeles
The exhibition, THREES COMPANY, is titled in response to Marnie Weber's chimp sculpture. It is a platform of association to the exhibition of 33 artists and their works. The exhibition includes works from Andrew Arduini, John Baldessari, Devandra Banhart, Tami Demaree, Aryo Toh Djojo, Jason Roberts Dobrin, Jon Elder, John Emison, Jamie Felton, Ryan Fenchel, Matt Fishbeck, Daniel Gibson, Dan Graham, Gibby Haynes, Steven Hull, Allie Ihm, Johanna Jackson, Patrick Jackson, Chris Johanson, Janet Jenkins, Caleb Lyons, T Kelly Mason, Stefan Meier, Robert Moreland, Max Ostrow, Nate Page, Ornella Pacchioni, Taylor Marie, Prendergast, Ariel Rosenberg, Mira Schnedler, Tran Truong, Alex Wallman and Marnie Weber. The exhibition is on view through September 30 at Dan Graham 3.0 670 Anderson Street, Los Angeles. photographs by Lani Trock