LA-Based Artist’s Homage to The Inland Empire
Jeffrey Deitch
POV
Mario Ayala's "Truck Stop" finds the LA-based artist dropping the culture of Southern Cali’s Inland Empire into the middle of SoHo, NYC. Context is given by way of his truck stop chapel, tire shop and roadside billboard, while his “working-class” paintings pay fantastical homage to the truck drivers and auto mechanics he grew up around.
Mario Ayala's "Truck Stop" finds the LA-based artist dropping the culture of Southern Cali’s Inland Empire into the middle of SoHo, NYC. Context is given by way of his truck stop chapel, tire shop and roadside billboard, while his “working-class” paintings pay fantastical homage to the truck drivers and auto mechanics he grew up around.
DETAILS
SoHo, NYC - 18 Wooster Street
Sept 10 - Oct 29, 2022
Hours
Tue - Sat 12PM - 6PM
ABOUT
Mario Ayala brings Southern California’s Inland Empire to New York for his September-October exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch. The truck stop chapel, tire shop and roadside billboard that he has installed in the gallery create the context for his new work. Ayala’s meticulously crafted paintings extend the American Pop tradition into the present, drawing on a unique combination of art historical and vernacular influences shaped through his own life experience.
- Jeffrey Deitch
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