September 17 - November 12, 2022
From Plush Gallery:
“Natural Selection is a group exhibition featuring the work of Favio Moreno, Mylan Nguyen, Brent Ozaeta, and Taro Waggoner. This group of artists and close friends have collaborated frequently over the last decade. They have shown together in various Dallas area gallery spaces, as well as having organized and hosted site specific art events, including Super Fantasy Mercado, a boutique pop-up space in a flea market, and Poo Poo Pee Pee Gallery, an experimental exhibition space inside of a restroom on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
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Favio Moreno is a painter based in Dallas, Texas. The environment of his youth ranged from California, to Mexico, and Texas, with the Latin American culture he experienced influencing his personal visual language. Another visual influence for the artist is that of the iconographic imagery of contemporary US based design. He graduated from The Art Institute in 2001, and after working and living outside of Texas, relocated here in the last few years. Favio has appeared in numerous group shows at Plush Gallery, and has had one solo show here, When It’s All Said, in the fall of 2021. He divides his time between painting, printmaking, design, and mural work, in his signature style of hard-edged painting, with a refined sense of saturated and flat color shapes.
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Brent Ozaeta is a Dallas based painter and printmaker. His work is known for its flat graphic style influenced heavily by Japanese animation and pop culture. He juxtaposes imagery and pattern fragments into dense image fields on flattened picture planes in his paintings and works on paper. He has a variety of other side projects, including zine production, musician gig posters, and t-shirt design. Ozaeta was a recipient of The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund through the Dallas Museum of Art, has been a featured artist in New American Paintings, and was a recent Texas Biennial participant. Brent has appeared in a number of Plush group shows, and has had one solo show here previously, Garden of Sprites, in the summer of 2021.
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Born in Dallas, Texas in 1986, Mylan Nguyen is a Vietnamese / Mexican American artist. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and has just completed her MFA degree with Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She went on to study ceramic arts in Japan at the Jic Ceramic Studio in Shibuya and Furuki in Mashiko. Mylan works in a variety of media, including ceramics, illustration, printmaking, and environmental installation, and enjoys the alchemy of each of these processed based art forms. She has appeared in the annual Bodega Black Market group show at Plush, and makes cute and playful characters which explore narratives of magic, healing, and interconnectedness.
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Taro Waggoner is a biracial folk artist, who split his time between Japan and the US as a child, and is now based in Dallas, Texas. He is heavily inspired by Japanese manga, anime, and illustration, and navigates these topics as one who straddles the dual cultures, in the cultural space of the American South. His work reveals struggles with identity, mental health, and observations of community life. Taro’s current body of work focuses on anthropomorphic sculptural ceramic works, zines, and also mini-comics which prints through a RISO print project, Strange Powers Press, which he runs with his wife Mylan. He has appeared in the annual Bodega Black Market group show at Plush,”
Reception: September 17, 2022 | 4–8 pm
Closing: November 12, 2022 | 4–8 pm
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