Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Alicia Piller's first solo exhibition, Spirit of the Times. The show will feature an expansive installation of several large-scale, intricate sculptures throughout the gallery. Piller uses sprawling and knotted fields of latex and vinyl in her installations and wall works. The combination of raw materials, photographs, and news clippings twist together to form a kind of fragmented mirror of the current state of America. Her work references the trials and tribulations of this country's history and offers optimistic glimpses of a possible future with bright colors that show signs of life and proliferating forms that show signs of growth. Piller weaves into the work references to nature, family, capitalism, colonialism and industrial production in pieces that span the personal and the political. ------- Celebration for the launch of the tenth issue of FULL BLEDE, which features the work of 50 artists and writers. Each are responding to the theme: The Undertaking. Free copies will be available, while supplies last. The launch is in conjunction with the opening reception for Alicia Piller: Spirit of the Times. (Pictured: work by contributor Rakeem Cunningham.)