Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Elmer Guevara titled House Money, opening July 22nd at the gallery’s 961 Chung King Road space from 6-9pm. Elmer Guevara’s work draws experience from his life as a Salvadoran from South Central Los Angeles. Guevara’s latest show House Money, pulls reference from the domestic and Ursula K. Leguin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, in which she defines a binary of stories; the story of heroes and the other being the story of containers. She defines containers as non-heroes which tell the stories of mundanity and collection. Like many other Central Americans living in Los Angeles, Guevara’s family fled El Salvador during the civil war, one that the United States government orchestrated. Due to Guevara’s familial history his work layers containers, spaces, and memories to showcase the non-heroes and their stories of gathering. Through five paintings, small mixed media paintings and several drawings Guevara allows for the viewer to gaze into his own understanding of home. -Text by Leah Perez