Our homies KC Ortiz and Pose MSK of We Are Supervision fame, have exhibitions opening tonight at Known Gallery in Los Angeles. Both are MUST ATTEND events.
More info: www.knowngallery.com
KC ORTIZ “FORCED REBELLION”
KC Ortiz is a photojournalist based out of his hometown, Chicago. His work focuses on under-reported issues and over looked people and has taken him to all corners of the globe in pursuit of his work. This series of photographs documents the remaining Hmong’s daily lives and the desperate struggle faced from exposure to the never ending “Secret War” in the mountainous jungles of Laos. Rebels, Communists and CIA agents all played their part in KC Ortiz’s photo reportage; over a year of planning, secret meetings, and a clandestine entry into Laos brought him to the Hmong rebels and a world unseen by outsiders where there for three weeks he lived with the jungle Hmong in order to document their plight and living conditions.
Ortiz’s has been published in numerous international publications, including The Independent and A-Magasinet.
POSE “RUMBLE!!”
Pose currently lives and works in Chicago, he is a member of the acclaimed West Coast artist collective The Seventh Letter, as well as being a founder of his own Chicago based design and art firm We Are Supervision. He has traveled internationally on his own and with The Seventh Letter specifically to showcase his skills as one of the best graffiti artists out there. This is Pose’s first solo exhibition at Known Gallery.
In this exhibition Pose investigates a traditional style of comic book illustration and painting, infusing it with his own recognizable twist. Complexly layered, his work is bursting at the seams, often stunning and confusing onlookers with an intense amount of intricate detail. In this body of work, Pose has translated his trademarks in his signature graffiti style, (classic cartoon characters, sign painting fonts, a flat graphic style, and vivid color choices) from the street to the studio, creating elaborate large- and small-scale paintings. These new works explore imagery figuration in bold ways, with traces of his personality… the struggle, humor, sarcasm, love, hate, and always a feverish push towards the new.