awakening

Jackie Hontiveros Lozano
2nd solo exhibit
June 7, 2020

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Awakening is an intimate look into a world of restless color and spontaneous feeling.

It plunges into wild landscapes of vivid emotion, where fragments of faces, forms, and everyday scenes manage—just barely—to break through: a laborer at the end of the day, a player exhilarated by the game; a woman fixated on identity; a woman tickled by the living world; self-fragmenting anxiety, a dragon friend in a stormy sea.

The exhibit chronicles the raw, rugged terrain of an inner life scaled from one moment to the next. In this hidden world, navigating joy to fear to desire to hate to freedom, on and on and back again, a few useful landmarks grow familiar—along with the feeling that perhaps, one is not lost at all.

Paintings

Obsessively charting moods and moments is how ikaj pursued the work of her second solo exhibition. The artist turns her gaze towards the characters and creatures that populate her experience of the world, the emotions that color it, chronicling on a scale that is up-close-and-personal and larger-than-life all at once.