Hugo Crosthwaite’s newest exhibition is powerful and evocative, but more importantly, perhaps, it speaks to our human frailties, specifically, the ways in which we process grief and hope. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s poem Hymn and the recent abduction and murder of 43 college students in the Mexican State of Guerrero, Crosthwaite has created a series of drawings and floor sculptures, taken from a shattered mural, that engage the viewer on a deeply emotional and psychic level simultaneously. These works propose human narratives that will never be resolved, fully understood or lived through. The people who populate these images are human in the best and worst sense of the word. They grieve life even as they embrace it.

 Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
On view through June 20, 2015