This October 3rd & 4th at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, California is the multi-gallery event BEYOND EDEN which will be celebrating the New Contemporary Art Scene.
Mear One’s (Above) “Cognitive Dissonance” will be on display at Thinkspace Gallery’s booth and showcases some of his largest and most iconic works to date. Through a dialectical method of sorts, his work questions the standard taught model of mankind’s origins, postulating that we are all part of a much longer historical identity that has been kept from our knowing - Why? By whom? To what end? - is one side of the story he aims to relate. Like many thinkers before him, Mear One believes that the collective unconscious already knows the soul of humanity, that we were once part of an ancient global society connected to a higher order and purpose, and works from the simple premise that a single paradigm shift in thinking has the revolutionary potential to change the order in everything, the end result being sublimation.
As Mear One says: “My work tackles subject matter that transcends the mundanity and mindlessness of our ruled world predicated upon a falsified past. As a result, mankind has been thrust unknowingly into a state of Cognitive Dissonance; humanity has been under soma, asleep for generations. Upon awaking, it will be the instinct of many to react to these truths in a very deep and visceral way, challenging some of our fundamental beliefs about what is and isn’t our shared, lived reality. Gaining intellectual independence from the dominant ideology can go some way towards overcoming this dissonance.”
Alongside Mear One at the Thinkspace portion of the event will be a new solo show, “Paving Paradise” by Meggs, work from Chuck Sperry and an installation from Craig “Skibs” Barker.
Thinkspace is just one of five awesome galleries participating. For more and thorough information, please check out Beyond Eden’s Website.
