“Dude, Unmute Yourself” is a sprawling group exhibition of Shockboxx Gallery regulars that the pandemic-smart title reflects the need, particularly in these times, to speak out through art.

Mike Collins, Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up, 2021

A few highlights are in the backroom where Randi Matushevitz offers two innovative digital works that are conceived from her original oil paintings, transforming them into riveting motion-filled digital pieces that end as projections on the gallery wall. The most mutable, Queenie (2020) explores a wide range of human personality and emotion in a cornucopia of physical forms and shapes, including blinking eyes and mouth movements.

Randi Matushevitz, Queenie, 2020

Another backroom standout is Drica Lobo’s painting with a fresh, vibrant take on a beachscape in the spare Bright Future (2021) with its striped reflective rainbows in the water beneath Hermosa Beach Pier.

Aimee Mandala, Yellow Is My Favorite Color, 2021

Aimee Mandala’s, Yellow is My Favorite Color (2021) presents a charcoal-gray landscape dazzled by the glowing light of windows within a remote, mysterious home. It works well beside a range of abstract, primarily gold works from Amrta, such as her erupting gold cracks in Kintsugi, (2020) and the cascading, dancing gold of Falling Together (2020) which recalls the stippling of sunlight through trees on a forest floor.

Krista Wright, Your internet connection is unstable, 2021

Krista Wright’s representational work has a powerful surrealist painterly edge in her unique approach to watercolor and gauche painting with a muted pastel palette of greens and purples. The large canvas, nearly 3 x 4 feet is humorously titled Your internet connection is unstable (2021). This Bay Area–based artist is one to keep an eye on.

Shockboxx Gallery
636 Cypress Ave
Hermosa Beach, CA
runs through April 17