Exhibition: May 4-May 27
Reception: Fri. May 4, 8-11 PM

La Luz de Jesus Gallery is pleased to present “CREDO” by artist Patrick McGrath Muniz. This marks the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. CREDO explores and questions our myths, assumptions, and beliefs in an age of political uncertainty and misinformation by connecting American Pop consumer culture and religion in paintings inspired by Spanish Colonial Iconography. The work presented responds to our current capitalist consumer driven society with its indifference to the rising threat of climate change by tracing its origins to the time of Columbus and the Spanish colonization of the “New World.” By adopting Renaissance painting techniques on canvas and panel reminiscent of Spanish colonial art, the artist able to emulate earlier indoctrination strategies and devices from the time of the conquest of the Americas. Satirical narratives and anachronisms present in the work enable the viewer to explore and question the ruling Corpocracy with its Colonial roots, Neo-colonial ramifications and its enormous impact on the environment and the poor. Besides asking the modern creed of growth, profit, progress and presumed human dominion over nature, these paintings also question our embedded consumer beliefs and disproportionate attention and faith placed on technology, corporations, and the mass media.