Ochi Projects is pleased to participate in CONDO, Mexico City, hosted by Karen Huber Gallery. Ochi will exhibit works by Los Angeles based artists Rives Granade, Lilian Martinez and Jake Kean Mayman in the gallery’s project room. The work is on view from September 26 – October 26. The gallery is located at Av.Bucareli #120 CDMX.

Rives Granade is interested in the edge between abstraction and figuration. He incorporates signs and symbols as aesthetic objects, allowing them to hover in an in-between space where meaning is not fixed and can be configured in many ways. This body of work continues Granade’s exploration into the mutability of forms with color being a dominating interest. Radiating energy, Granade achieves his saturated hues by using acrylic gouache as a primary medium. Shifting away from the artist’s usual oil paint, the gouache allows for a more immediate kind of mark making; the colors being matte and intense, leave a surface almost fragile in its sheen.

Rives Granade earned a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (2002), and an MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute (2008). The artist has recently shown work at Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, and Marine Projects, Venice, CA.

Lilian Martinez’ work often reconciles past with present and future, combining art history, classical architectural elements and contemporary pop cultural references into dreamy scenes. Martinez’ figures are usually engaged in leisure activities. Her work indulges color and mood, and is direct while maintaining a vibe that is charmingly nonchalant.

Lilian Martinez (b. 1986, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of BFGF, an art brand working with digitally printed and woven versions of her artwork. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, most recently with Ochi Projects, Los Angeles The Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Ireland and Commune, Tokyo, Japan. 

Our global community rests upon a confluence of conflict, commerce, finance and technology, allowing our species the potential to achieve a lasting prosperity on this planet, but also creating a web of interconnectivity so delicate as to risk collapse. Through still life and portraiture, Jake Kean Mayman's work explores the systems and structures that place us in the precarious position between great opportunity and imminent peril. Narratives examine the correlation between past events and present situations with the end goal of understanding how future developments may unfold and how we might shape them.

Jake Kean Mayman (b. 1980 in Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in painting from New York University.  He has had solo exhibitions at Stellar Projects in New York and Night Gallery in Los Angeles. He has been included in exhibitions at The Pit and The Underground Museum among others.  His work has been written about in Artforum, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNet, LALA Magazine, Malibu Magazine, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles.