Do you believe in aliens? Aryo Toh Djojo asks this very question in his surrealist airbrush paintings
The LA-based artist first picked up an airbrush a year ago, and since then he’s been creatively pursuing his interests in UFOs.
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A supportive network is crucial to the development of any creative, especially if that network is built up of those closest to you – like your family. For Aryo Toh Djojo, his interests in the arts were nurtured since childhood. “For some reason, I think my family knew that one day I would become an artist,” he tells It’s Nice That. So much so that when Aryo announced his decision to apply to ArtCentre College of Design in Pasadena, LA, they were more than encouraging and told him to go for it. “My uncle went to that school for a bit, so they knew how prestigious it was and when they found out I got in, they were stoked.”
Aryo Toh Djojo s Transmission @ Wilding Cran Gallery
Wilding Cran Gallery // January 09, 2021 - January 30, 2021
January 28, 2021 | in Painting
A few artists managed to convey the general weirdness of current times as well as Los Angeles-born artist Aryo Toh Djojo whose solo show
Transmission is currently on view at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. And here we re not talking about the year of a pandemic or the political climate in the U.S. but the age of social and mass media-influenced understanding of reality.
Curated by Michael Slenske, the presentation comprises mostly small-size pieces celebrating archetypal LA/California imagery, yet alternated with the, in most cases, subtle presence of UFO objects. Displayed within a scattered cluster that occupies two adjacent gallery walls, the installation feels like a scene from a CSI type of show in which experts are resolving a mysterious case. And in this particular instance, the case is the UFOs captured on a variet
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