If you’re seeking a surge of creativity, Thinkspace Projects has the perfect opportunity to ignite your imagination. Join them Saturday for an exciting opening reception that celebrates the rich visual language of Casey Weldon, Suanjaya Kencut, and Eli McMullen. Each unique artistic expressions pushes the boundaries of contemporary art, and unpacks a distinct style that captivates and inspires. If that wasn’t enough to satiate your create wanderlust, get lost in their new monthly series spotlighting local creatives. This show, The FRESH Series’, features new works from Steven Morrell, Josh Everhorn and Nate Seubert.
We feel the pulse of each artist, like a heartbeat, as they beguile our senses with vivid narratives that let us embrace the unexpected. Join us on this artistic journey, where every collection surpasses the landscape of imagination.
Thinkspace Projects also offers a full schedule of events, interviews, and much more to keep you and your creative needs fully immersed. Be sure to follow their blog Sour Harvest to stay updated on all the artsy things you love! If you’re looking to add to your own collection of art, take a moment and visit their online store to view available inventory.
Thinkspace Projects Presents
Casey Weldon, Suanjaya Kencut, Eli McMullen
‘The FRESH Series’
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 6-10pm
With DJ, refreshments, live painting, video projections and more!
Exhibition Dates: May 3, 2025 – May 24, 2025
Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90016
#310.558.3375 | Tues. – Sat. Noon to 6PM
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About the Gallery //
Thinkspace Projects was founded in 2005; now in LA’s burgeoning West Adams District, the gallery has garnered an international reputation as one of the most active and productive exponents of the New Contemporary Art Movement. Maintaining its founding commitment to the promotion and support of its artists, Thinkspace Projects has steadily expanded its roster and diversified its projects, creating collaborative and institutional opportunities all over the world. Founded in the spirit of forging recognition for young, emerging, and lesser-known talents, the gallery is now home to artists from all over the world, ranging from the emerging, mid-career, and established.
The New Contemporary Art Movement, not unlike its earlier 20th Century counterparts like Surrealism, Dada, or Fauvism, ultimately materialized in search of new forms, content, and expressions that cited rather than disavowed the individual and the social. The earliest incarnations of the Movement, refusing the paradigmatic disinterest of “Art” as an inaccessible garrison of ‘high culture’, championed figuration, surrealism, representation, pop culture, and the subcultural.
By incorporating the ‘lowbrow,’ accessible, and even profane, an exciting and irreverent art movement grew in defiance of the mandated renunciations of “high” art. Emerging on the West Coast in the 90’s partly as a response to the rabid ‘conceptual-turn’ then championed on the East Coasts, the Movement steadily created its own platforms, publications, and spaces for the dissemination of its imagery and ideas.
CASEY WELDON, ‘Old Haunt’
Thinkspace Projects is thrilled to present Casey Weldon’s new solo show, ‘Old Hauntt.’ Exploring real world predicaments from the social lives of his friends, filtered through his unique lens, Weldon presents an all new colorful and varied body of work in our fourth solo exhibition together.
‘Old Haunt’ is a menagerie of ideas Weldon has collected over the last couple years. Each piece is inspired by real-life scenarios he has witnessed, including stories of loved ones, observations about his environment, and his own introspective self-evaluation.
The collection itself is a lovely convergence of many ideas, all in pursuit of connecting with the viewers. As Weldon describes it, “my intent is to be narrative, accessible, and hopefully pleasurable to look at. I definitely like to involve a lot of nostalgic pop references, especially for the more humorous side of my work, but I also like referring to nature and man’s interaction with it.
In the end my major goal is to get the viewer to be inquisitive about the painting, either to get the punchline, or make one up on their own. I can only hope that I can be interesting enough for them without being too ambiguous, but still say something without spelling it out. Plus lots of cats.”
About the artist //
Casey Weldon was born in Southern California (1979), where he spent the majority of his life up until his graduation from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2004. Since then, he’s bounced around between his favorite cities, Seattle WA, Brooklyn NY, and back to Las Vegas NV, where he currently works as a full-time artist. His fine art, imbued with a sumptuous illustrative quality, is indicative of his profession.
Weldon’s paintings are inspired by the iconography of today and yesterday’s popular culture, and through it aims to awaken feelings of nostalgia within the viewer, though often along with a sense of humor, melancholy, and longing for times lost.
Weldon has exhibited and sold his work in galleries across the United States and Europe / the UK and his pieces now reside in collections around the globe.
SUANJAYA KENCUT, ‘I Trip Therefore I Am’
Artist Statement //
Humans are creatures in need of self-actualization. He constantly needs life contact with the real world. We have long known the jargon: “cogito ergo sum,” or “I think, therefore I am.” This famous phrase from René Descartes reminds us of the importance of human existence as a thinking being. But isn’t thinking enough? Don’t we then need to act?
However, nowadays, amid human action, we face the crisis of the real and virtual worlds. On the one hand, humans are now facing crisis conditions on a world scale, both due to war and economic downturn and to the destruction of nature and ecological balance. On the other hand, humans are now accustomed to living in a world of self-actualization with gadgets and the institutions of digital life, including their attachment to artificial intelligence.
Realizing this, Suanjaya Kencut sees that in concrete self-actualization, humans need a social circle while enjoying what is around them. This is what motivates humans to take walks to enjoy nature, whether they are alone or with their family. By traveling, humans realize that it is not enough to think or think, but also to act or act to actualize themselves. By traveling, humans become grateful for life and find the key to happiness.
People who find themselves in a real-world crisis may attempt to navigate through cyberspace. Vice versa, humans who have been trapped in the virtual world for too long should start preparing themselves to pick up and immerse themselves in the real world. This paradoxical dilemma has always overshadowed the need to travel.
In this solo exhibition, artist Suanjaya Kencut presents the theme “I TRIP THEREFORE I AM,” meaning that by traveling, humans realize their true existence, whether alone, with humans, or with animals. Through a selection of his works, Suanjaya Kencut tries to reflect the human need for self-actualization with his surroundings and nature.
With his signature character of landscape, Suanjaya Kencut also invites the public into a realistic picture approach in order to remind them of the importance of travel/trips around nature in the world. In addition, the works in “I Trip Therefore I Am” also want to adapt to what is happening in humans today, the need to actualize themselves with the surrounding nature and the world around them. Thus, Suanjaya Kencut’s artworks want to reassure that humans can continue to strive for life in the midst of real and virtual world crises.
About the artist //
Educated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Indonesian Arts Institute, in Yogyakarta, I Putu Adi Suanjaya “Kencut” is an artist from Bal, Indonesiai (b. 1994) famous for his multi-patterned puppet figures. Through bold colors and lines, he presents a world of parody through his figures as a form of human reflection today. Kencut presents the subject of doll-shaped creatures with buttons that are presented in the form of paintings, sculptures and installations.
It has a characteristic emphasis on contrasting colors and line strength.The characters in Kencut’s works are presented like dolls but are actually representations of humans and their lives. These inanimate puppets show a fragment scene of human life that contains a reflection on the current human situation.
ELI McMULLEN, ’Sleep Walk’
Artist Statement //
This series emerges from moments when the fabric of the world seems thinner, when forests shimmer with half forgotten memories, when light behaves like language, when paths lead inward as much as they do forward. These pieces navigate unseen landscapes where the sacred meets the surreal, and energy hums just beneath the surface. These are not literal places, but they are deeply real, formed at the intersection of inner vision and natural phenomena, drawn from experiences that felt more like encounters than observations.
The work is an invitation to step beyond surface reality and into a liminal terrain, one shaped by intuition, altered states, and the uncanny intelligence of the wild. This body of work is both a sanctuary and a signal. A way to leave, and possibly a way to come back differently.
About the artist //
Eli McMullen is a painter based in Richmond, Virginia. He received his BFA in Painting & Printmaking from VCU in 2015. Eli’s paintings memorialize ephemeral, nostalgic-like scenery that accentuates peculiar light qualities and explores psychedelic subtleties embedded within the surrounding landscapes. Fleeting moments that feel suspended in time, glimmers that quietly urge to be searched.
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