From the gallery:Quint Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by San Diego-based artist Perry Vásquez from January 25-February 18, 2023. Some Palms centers the palm tree as a symbol for the idealism of California, simultaneously mythologizing and interrupting its appeal.Date palms, synonymous with the California landscape, were imported by Franciscan monks in the late 1600s as ornamental nods to the plant’s appearances in the bible, transforming Southern California from an arid desert into an oasis. These palms, with only one species native to California, provide neither shade nor fruit, and require vast resources of water from near and far watersheds in order to thrive. Vásquez has considered this ecological quandary to create paintings of palms engulfed in flames, an image which has become synonymous with accelerated rates of wildfires across the region. In other paintings, he further dissects the myth of the palm tree with paintings of Monopalms, the concealed
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