A Dark and Fluffy World: Read Our Interview With Galen Pehrson Before The Premiere of His Animated Film The Caged Pillows →

Watching one of Galen Pehrsonโ€™s films, like his most recent, The Caged Pillows, starring the likes of Jena Malone and James Franco, is like stepping into a psychedelic cartoon where you canโ€™t help feeling a tinge of dรฉjร  vu โ€“ youโ€™re not sure if it was a dream, a childhood memory, or an omen. Itโ€™s as though a mixture of real life memories and old movie scenes were plucked from your brain and rearranged into a brilliant new narrative. Theyโ€™re the renderings of a world that most of us have inhabited for all our lives, but for Galen, who spent the first 12 years of his life in rural Nevada City, without access to cable TV or any other means of consuming pop culture, this world can be seen from a slightly outside perspective. Click here to read more. 

Opening of "Cerebral Vortex" Group Show At MAMA Gallery In Los Angeles

MAMA Gallery twists itself into a temporary coil, experiencing an equally unexplainable impulse to spiral briefly into the form of the Cerebral Vortex. This multi- sensory group exhibition features work from eight highly cerebral artists, like Jonathan Bepler, James Franco, Henry Hopper, Galen Pehrson, Luckey Remington, Angeline Rivas, Adam Tullie, and Double Diamond Sun Body. Cerebral Vortex will be on view until October 31, 2015 at MAMA Gallery, 1492 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper and Sara Clarken