Petra Cortright's Predator Swamping @ 1301PE In Los Angeles

In order to maintain survival, some species hatch all at once. Floods of nascent turtles, crabs, or fish will overwhelm their predator by sheer volume. This oversaturation ensures that the breed will live on. For Predator Swamping, Petra Cortright exhibits a new body of work, made during the precarious months of 2020, in which she exercises a similar survival instinct.

For her third exhibition with 1301PE and her first since the birth of her son, Cortright continues to create paintings in Photoshop and prints them on Belgian linen. The paintings incorporate images of the High Desert, Bolivia, and Patagonia sourced from the internet which function as a base layer upon which she builds expanded landscapes. For the first time in her career Cortright has also created paintings in black and white. The stripping away of color reveals an overwhelming desolation that could bear a strong resemblance to 2020, while for some including Cortright, a homebody at heart, the imagery evokes doomsday bliss.

Predator Swamping is on view through March 27 @ 1301PE 6150 Wilshire Boulevard

Enigmatic Art Collective Grupo Anan Opens "Trader Joe's Lounge" @ Sade Gallery In Los Angeles

Mysterious art collective, or duo, Grupo Anan, whose Instagram bio says it is based either in London, or Bolivia or Los Angeles – who really knows – presents Trader Joe's Lounge at Sade Gallery In Los Angeles. The exhibition explores the Polynesian myth of Tiki, or the first man, who saw his reflection in a puddle of water. Thinking that the reflection was another person, he throws dirt on to what is really his reflection and the first woman is born. The show explores the commercialization and reapprropraion of these cultures and myths in a post-war America, especially with the "TIki fad" of the 1950s. You can stop by Trader Joe's Lounge until November 1st and explore the exhibition - Mai Tai's will be served – at Sade Gallery, 204 S Ave 19, Los Angeles, CA. photographs by Sara Clarken

20 Days In the Extraterrestrial Landlocked Landscapes and Andean Plateaus of Bolivia

Bolivia is the second to last stop for Holy Patte, who last week took us on a tour of Peru and the week before that Ecuador. On their four-month journey through South America, no country would take them higher than Bolivia. It's staggering elevations have encouraged a seemingly extraterrestrial landscape to emerge over the millennia. Bolivia is also landlocked, which means there is no shore to infringe upon its remoteness. Amaury and Chloé, or Holy Patte, perfectly capture the eeriness of this landscape that could just as easily be Mars or Neptune - if only these planets had pink flamingoes that exist in the well below freezing environment of Laguna Colorada and wooly alpaca that roam the surrounding Andean plateau. 

30 Days In The Amazonian Jungles, Snow Capped Peaks and Incan Villages of Peru

Holy Patte, who took us on a tour of Ecuador last week, present one of their most exciting journeys yet with an action packed, 30 day adventure through Peru. Just another long stop on their 4 month long excursion of South America, which has also taken them to Costa Rica and Colombia. On their exciting adventure through Peru, they first took a journey through the Amazon where they slept in wooden huts on stilts, eating piranhas for breakfast and holding wild sloths right from the trees. After trekking through the muggy jungles, it was off to the Huascaran National Park where the pair hiked through the freezing, snowy mountain peaks - camping all along the way. The it was off to a romantic motorbike excursion to the Incan capital of Peru, Cuzco and all the surrounding villages. Stay tuned until next week when we feature highlights from Holy Patte's journey through Bolivia.    

Follow The Incredible Journey of Amaury and Chloé On Their Magical Journey Through South America

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The story of Parisian couple Amaury and Chloé is a real life choose-your-own adventure story. At the end of 2014 they graduated from university. At that moment, the realization that they had to get a real job began to sink in, deeper and deeper, like quicksand. That’s when they decided to drop everything and travel to South America, to discover “…The beautiful, the weird and the funny in this world.” Both extremely appreciative of handicrafts and anyone that who works with his or her hands, Amaury Laparra and Chloé Chausson decided to not only travel, but also to seek out those craftspeople in the deep jungles and mountain climes – “to discover their ‘savoir-faire’ and philosophy of life.” To document the trip, they created a blog – called Holy Patte, which is a combination of “patte de l’artiste” (a French expression that translates to ‘the artist’s hand’) and “holy moly.” Holly Patte a hybridization of cultural colloquialisms that would perfectly sum up their entire four-month trip – yes, four months! Fortunately, Autre discovered their blog and decided to collaborate with Holy Patte to reach a broader audience for their incredible and rare photographic journey that started in Costa Rica and ended in Chile. It should be noted that Amaury is the firestarter, driver and photographer and Chloé is in charge of getting lost, translation and writing. Their documentation is an astounding record of some of the rarest and strangest landscapes in the world. Click here to see the first leg of their trip in Costa Rica.