Hiroko Yoshimoto - Biodiversity #60 Biodiversity & Cross Pollination Hiroko Yoshimoto & Cj Jilek  Saturday, July 23rd – August 20th 2022 Closing Reception: Saturday, August 20th 3 – 6pm Artist Walk-through 5pm LAUNCH Gallery 170 S. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm Cj Jilek, Ripening 3 LAUNCH Gallery is proud to present two solo exhibitions celebrating the beauty and wonder of the natural world in two-dimensional and three-dimensional formats. Hiroko Yoshimoto finds inspiration from the ‘Father of Biodiversity’, E.O Wilson and Rachel Carson, considered among the finest nature writers of the twentieth century. In 2012, encouraged by these activist scholars, Hiroko began a series of watercolors that soon evolved to large canvases and has grown to over 300 artworks. This ongoing series, titled Biodiversity honors the work of these important early environmentalists through abstract visual representations of colors and lines, movements, and surprises. Inspired by the sensuality of the natural world, Cj Jilek appropriates ceramic botanical forms with their openly displayed reproductive elements as a metaphor for human sexuality. The biomorphic forms in this series, Cross Pollination, lead the viewer to a subconscious association between nature and the human instinct of attraction.