Jesse Vogel's paintings investigate the edges of Los Angeles seeking, witnessing and capturing moments in the lives of subcultures strewn across the city. Each image is a memory, some developed and new; others, faded and aged with time. Dramatic light sources break up the shadows in obscure natural locations within the city as an unflinchingly dystopian and starkly beautiful backdrop.  These works are an homage to the cultural activities taking place in the margins of Southern California. Subcultures. Gatherings. Dramatic everyday escapes. Events on the edges of the city, and on the fringes of the chaparral. The margins of the desert and the ocean. They explore and depict the city’s ability to change all the time while somehow essentially staying the same.