Ivan Lozano

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Occult Identities

by Mia DiMeo
Ivan Lozano at Johalla Projects July 6th, 2012 - July 27th, 2012
Posted 7/10/12

Lozano’s installation plays with mysticism and ritual, but creates a more sinister altar, in a gallery that becomes a chapel of violent sexual imagery. This place feels far from heaven, glowing under red lights, it appears to be more like a psychedelic interpretation of hell. Raised in devoutly Catholic Mexico, Lozano uses enlarged pornographic photographs, cut out and mounted under Plexiglas to make up the Stations of the Cross. On one wall, grainy portraits of men, many with their mouths open as... [more]

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by Joel Kuennen
Madeleine Baily, Steven Frost, Yasi Ghanbari, Elise Goldstein, Rachel Lowther, Ivan Lozano, Brian Maller, Alison Rhoades, Tessa Siddle, Fritz Welch, Synvia Whitney at Roxaboxen Exhibitions August 26th, 2011 - September 18th, 2011
Posted 8/29/11

This past Friday saw the opening of “Splay,” curated by Marissa Perel, a performance artist and curator. Representing artists from around the world and comprised of installations and two performances (by Steven Frost and Syniva Whitney) “Splay” gestures towards contemporary standards of eroticism and the state of the erotic as a reflexive component in the construction of self. Perel hopes to “open up a dialogue about the place of real pleasure within the manifold real and imagined ide... [more]