Join us from 6 - 8:30pm on Saturday, May 25th for an opening reception of Darius Airo's solo exhibition Mickey's Mirror, curated by Joshua White of Whitebox.LA
Location: 1923 S Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Valet and nearby street parking available.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery x WhiteBox.LA presents Mickey’s Mirror, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and pastels by Darius Airo. Airo’s latest works are vibrant abstractions featuring monolithic cartoon characters depicted on tables and abstracted through internal mirrors.
Airo utilizes rhythms and content as compositional tools, creating an autobiographical alphabet rearranged according to mood or space.
The images explore the collapse and explosion of elements such as the monolith, mirror, and table, with the characters serving as symbolic and self-referential figures that shift formally within their environments, reflecting mood and space.
Darius Airo (b.1995, Chicago) lives and works in Chicago. He received his BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Airo has shown work internationally in exhibitions in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Paris. Mickey’s Mirror is Airo’s third west coast solo exhibition.
Joshua White is a Los Angeles based photographer specializing in the documentation of art and architecture. After a ten-year stint as Architect Frank Gehry's in-house photographer throughout the 90’s, Joshua went freelance in early 1999. Joshua has photographed the vibrant international art and architecture scene for the past three decades and has contributed to hundreds of books and periodicals for artists and architects ranging from Richard Serra to Rem Koolhaas, Jeff Koons and Charles Ray to Takashi Murakami and Renzo Piano.
In 2023, White was awarded Top Architectural and Fine Art Photographer by Art News Magazine. Recently, White has begun curating art shows in Los Angeles with his gallery project WhiteBox.LA and has curated shows for Darius Airo, Curt Lemieux and artists Jim Mooijekind and Tim Biskup.
Joshua White lives in Los Angeles and works locally and internationally.