We are pleased to announce Victor Estrada: Everything is possible … nothing is true, an exhibition of recent work by the Los Angeles-based artist. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 17 from 2–5 PM. The exhibition will remain on view through June 28 at as-is.la. In this new body of work, Estrada deepens his long-standing engagement with abstraction, using it to explore formal and emotional terrain marked by both pleasure and its opposite. His paintings reflect the undercurrents of existential anxiety that define the present moment—sentiments echoed in the philosophy of the video game Assassin’s Creed, from which the exhibition takes its title: Everything is possible … nothing is true. For Estrada, this phrase suggests a worldview shaped by uncertainty, chance, contradiction, and ambiguity. These new paintings draw upon the drama and surrealism of Spanish Baroque painting, channeling its visionary use of form and color. Estrada’s work also engages with Surrealism, Xicano culture, Abstract Expressionism, and speculative thought, navigating a complex and layered pictorial language shaped by contemporary cultural forces. Through abstract and biomorphic compositions, Estrada gives shape to emotional and psychological states, inviting viewers into a space of both contemplation and intensity. This work resonates deeply with José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of “The Sense of Brown,” a critical framework that embraces the layered identities, cultural hybridity, and historical complexity tied to brownness. Estrada’s paintings do not illustrate this idea directly, but rather move alongside it—offering a visual corollary to its insights. At its core, Estrada’s practice continually asks: What makes a painting a painting? He approaches these works where personal and conceptual histories intersect with the physicality of the medium. Color, line, shape, texture, and material qualities—whether thin or thick, dull or glossy—are activated in rhythmic interplay, excavating meaning from the painted surface. For Estrada, painting loops between the world and itself, a recursive act of searching without final resolution—where knowing and unknowing coexist. Painting becomes an active agent of meaning. By invoking the legacy of painting, from the Spanish Baroque to the speculative present, alongside Muñoz’s “The Sense of Brown” and the philosophical ambiguity of the exhibition title, Estrada offers viewers a rich and timely context through which to engage his work.