Pablo Rasgado: Timescape (pictured) Steve Turner is pleased to present Timescape, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Pablo Rasgado that features three monumental paintings that the artist has been working on since 2015. Each consists of twenty-five to thirty painted passages that Rasgado has removed from public walls around the world including Mexico City, Havana, Barcelona, New York, Philadelphia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, cities where Rasgado has worked for extended periods of time. The sections will be installed side-by-side to produce a single work that spans more than sixteen feet in width and nearly a decade in time. In utilizing the Renaissance technique of strappo to extract painted passages in public space (originally developed to move frescoes from one location to another), Rasgado has created a new painting that functions as a literal landscape of the various source cities. By foregoing allegory or representation, Rasgado assembles a work that is both a record of specific instances of time, place and circumstance and also an evocative image with multiple readings. Pablo Rasgado (born 1984 Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico) has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 & 2017); Piero Atchugarry, Miami (2019); Arratia Beer, Berlin (2012 & 2014); OMR, Mexico City (2013); and Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2011). He has also had work in group exhibitions at CAM Raleigh (2014); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Art Collateral Events, 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel (2013); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2012); and Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (2010). His work is owned by public collections including Wattis Foundation, San Francisco; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives and works in Mexico City. ---------------- Dickens Otieno: Mtaani Steve Turner is pleased to present Mtaani, a solo exhibition by Nairobi-based Dickens Otieno that features new tapestries and sculpture made of woven strips derived from discarded aluminum cans. Inspired by Kenya’s weaving tradition and his mother’s work as a tailor, the sight of goods piled high in Nairobi’s markets, the contrast of urbanization and nature in Nairobi and the patterns of decoration that are ubiquitous in everyday functional objects, Otieno seeks to create objects of cultural significance that combine his respect for labor, skill and history with his desire to draw attention to the overlooked beauty of everyday Kenyan life. Mtaani is a Kiswahili word that means “in the neighborhood” and the works in this exhibition are from, about and for Otieno’s neighborhood. Dickens Otieno (born 1979, Migori, Kenya, lives Nairobi) has had solo exhibitions at Circle Art Agency, Nairobi (2018 & 2020) and has had works in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania Nigeria, France and England. Mtaani is Otieno’s debut exhibition in the United States and his first project with Steve Turner, Los Angeles. ---------------- Nicanor Aráoz: Don't Acid Me Steve Turner is pleased to present Don’t Acid Me, a solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based Nicanor Aráoz that features expressive large scale drawings that depict fragmented or distorted human figures. Dark and tortured, the figures seem to have been born in a nightmare and softened with details of hope and innocence such as smiley faces, flowers and a bunny. In this way, they encompass good and evil, health and sickness and purity and perversion. According to Aráoz, these figures portray the underground virtues of an irresponsible ego. Nicanor Aráoz (born 1981, Buenos Aires) has had solo exhibitions at Museu Moderno, Buenos Aires (2020); Barro, Buenos Aires (2015 & 2018); Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2017) and Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2016). His work has also been exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; La Tabacalera, Madrid, and Castello Di Rivoli, Turin. This is his first solo exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles.