Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Lifecycle, an exhibition of new works by California-based artist Jeff Soto, in what will be his third solo show at the gallery. In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will be painting a site-specific public mural in New York City, and releasi... Read more
Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Lifecycle, an exhibition of new works by California-based artist Jeff Soto, in what will be his third solo show at the gallery. In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will be painting a site-specific public mural in New York City, and releasing a new limited-edition print.
As the show title suggests, works in Lifecycle refer to birth, death, and the voyage in between. The artist’s interest in time, mortality, fatherhood and generational relationships—within his own family and humankind in general—are explored through visual metaphors and symbolism.
Soto’s paintings exude tension through iconographic imagery that has become the artist’s signature. His canvases feature ominous worlds where quasi-divine apparitions with organic tendrils writhe from the cavities of smoking, robotic shells, as their lumbering frames preside over sprawling urban landscapes. With background environments full of old machinery and industrial decay, Soto’s creatures inhabit desolate, forgotten spaces—figures duel, wild flowers bloom and rainbows thrive, as dark smog and storm clouds loom amidst floating skulls.
