Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present PARALLEL DISASTERS, an exhibition of paintings... Tornados engulfing the skies above familiar suburban landscapes, specters of the Confederacy hovering over shells of spacious single-family homes; such fantastic and haunting scenes characterize Parallel Disasters, a two-artist exhibition of paintings by John Brosio and Perin Mahler. Rooted in crisis and speculation, both personal and social, Brosio and Mahler’s paintings peer into uncharted territories rife with new systems of logic, possibility, and risk. Mahler and Brosio’s works ring urgently in a climate—social, political, environmental, and otherwise—that increasingly demands new resolve to address looming catastrophes but also possibilities. Answering the call to interrogate the past and present, and prepare for an uncharted beyond, Mahler’s mise en scénes set a framework with which to make sense of contemporary chaos and crisis, while Brosio thrusts us into worlds that demand new language. Both challenge us to reconsider what it means to be in control.

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