PLATO

PLATO is proud to exhibit in the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The presentation honors the history of Hollywood by showcasing gallery artists who employ theatricality, cosplay, or cinematographic tropes to create an illusion of worlds beyond day-to-day reality. We are exhibiting the work of Alex Sutcliffe, Alic Brock, Émile Brunet, Erik Nieminen, Jacob Rochester, Henry Hung Chang, Maude Corriveau, Shuto Okayasu, and Tang Shuo. Please see some installation images of our room below.

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Émile Brunet (b. 1989, Montréal, Canada)’s hipstery peasants position themselves as Renaissance nobility. Based on his staged clay sculptures, Erik Nieminen (b. 1985, Ottawa, Canada)’s oil paintings depict the fluid metamorphosis of ancient and recent myths with a raw energy of AI-inspired compositions. Alex Sutcliffe (b. 1997 Chicago, IL) blends the physical and the digital in his theatrical drama of ancient Greek characters. In Shuto Okayasu (b. 1990, Saitama, Japan)'s paintings and drawings, live music, the hustle of New York streets, and an intercontinental flight transport us into another realm merging reality and dreams. Alic Brock (b. 1992, Dayton, OH)'s eerie airbrushed compositions evoke Alfred Hitchcock's and David Lynch's films. Jacob Rochester (b. 1995, Bloomfield, CT)'s full-length portraits also resemble movie stills. Henry Hung Chang (b. 1989, Taipei, Taiwan)’s sensual monks concoct performance rituals replete with elaborate props. Tang Shuo (b. 1987, Guangxi, China)’s countryside dwellers chasing family secrets resemble actors lit up by spotlights. Finally, Maude Corriveau (b. 1986, Montréal, Canada) quite literally draws the curtain on reality, confronting the viewer with the artificiality and otherworldliness of its reflection. Many visitors of the Roosevelt Hotel are real or aspiring actors in its Hollywood drama. At PLATO’s booth, they are in good company.