"Delicate Membrane " (in the South Gallery) Lorenzo De Los Angeles March 10th – May 5th, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday March 10th, 2007, 7-10 pm Lorenzo De Los Angeles's Victorian pastel still lives hide their subversive nature behind soothing muted colors and exquisitely intricate rendering. Their surface beauty is subtly underscored by the sometimes macabre and explicit imagery that they contain. These small altars or palace gardens, infiltrated by allusions to peripheral cultures and fetishes create psychedelic paradises whose understated elegance makes their strangeness palatable. De Los Angeles pilfers from botanical illustrations, images from his father's medical and pharmacological books that he looked through as a child, photography and cinema to construct elaborate narratives for the viewer to excavate. The obsessive nature in which the images are executed in these composites lend the subjects the importance of artifacts endowed with ritual and alchemistic powers. His references to ancient civilizations and customs, as well as allusions to phantasmagorias, mythology and the paranormal contextualize the memento-like quality of the subjects and explain the psychological richness of his botanical wonderlands and vaudeville magic hat shows. NORTH GALLERY: WOLFE LENKIEWICZ: Emblematic Psychosis Events sponsored by:           Ingalls & Associates,125 NW 23rd Street                 Miami, FL 33127 T.305.573.6263                                                         www.ingallsassociates.com ..