For Never Let Us Go opening February 16 at Desert Center | Los Angeles Gunderman works off the concept of the nautical stay to create a literal (and metaphorical) anchor to investigate the scope of his bucolic vista in Heritage Valley from sea to summit. Landscapes merge with figures that are more concerned with the essences of this cosmos than the representation of it. Within that space garage spiders grow genitalia and anthropomorphic suns spout thumbs while Gunderman’s twice-washed renditions of this mindspace grasp at this memory of a place that never was (or never will be). It’s a dark matter feedback loop compressed into a world fleshy pinks and sun-blanched yellows, sea foam greens and robin’s egg blues. In other words, living abstractions of that ur social media concept: #nofilter.