Summary
- Evan Pricco and Ozzie Juarez have teamed up to unveil Against a Bright, Blue Sky
- Staged at Juarez’s Los Angeles art center, the show marks the American launch of The Unibrow, a new arts and culture publication by Pricco
- The exhibition gathers nearly 50 artists including Lauren Halsey, Patrick Martinez, FriendsWithYou, Mario Ayala and many more
The Unibrow, the new publication by Juxtapoz’s Evan Pricco, has touched down in Los Angeles with Against a Bright, Blue Sky, an exciting group show staged at Ozzie Juarez’s Tlaloc Studios. Co-curated by Pricco and Juarez, the exhibition gathers nearly 50 artists working across mediums, each reimagining its title, imprinted with the city they call home.
“Against a Bright, Blue Sky can be read in two different ways: something beautiful and expansive and the other a push to the edge of the world,” Pricco wrote in the exhibition release. The idea for the show initially came during The Unibrow’s inaugural exhibition in Tokyo earlier this fall when the curators found themselves reflecting on the political upheavals and mounting pressures facing stateside.
For Oakland native Pricco and Juarez, an Angeleno, the conversation inevitably led back to a group show that centered a distinctly Californian sensibility: “what it means as a place, a frontier, the end and edge of the world, pushed up against a bright, blue sky.” With work from Lauren Halsey, Patrick Martinez, Mia Scarpa, Aaron Johnson, FriendsWithYou and many more the exhibition becomes a tribute to Los Angeles and the communities and culture that sustain it, culminating in an ode to friendship, resistance and renewal.
“When we said we wanted to launch The Unibrow, we said we wanted it to be about friendship and history, camaraderie and the lives that artists live when they are working in their studios, creating without an audience in mind,” Pricco continued. The result is a collective snapshot, not only of Los Angeles now, but of the publication’s own dedication to documenting the artists defining this moment and all those to come.
Against a Bright, Blue Sky is now on view through December 14.
Tlaloc Studios
447 E 32nd St,
Los Angeles, CA 90011
