As long-term fans of Argentine painter, illustrator, and stop motion filmmaker Peca – we are excited to unveil a sneak peek at some of her new paintings opening this weekend at Corey Helford Gallery! The Beautiful Bizarre Magazine issue #21 and issue #36 artist will open her first solo exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery titled Allegories & Cupcakes,whichwill be on view in Gallery 3 through July 12th.
Peca creates dreamlike and mystical worlds populated by anthropomorphic creatures and mystical beings. Her art is often inspired by her own dreams, visions, and meditations, which she translates into vivid visual narratives filled with universal symbols.
Her childhood in Argentina was marked by the brutality of the military dictatorship, from which she found refuge in music and painting. After studying fine arts in Buenos Aires, Peca moved to Barcelona in 2001, where she now lives and works.
Her signature visual journeys encompass numerous creatures beyond our waking world. Each painting is an opportunity to explore our own imaginations and find our own meanings among her heartfelt backdrop of colourful, surreal beauty. Using a diverse range of media including oils, acrylics, and pencils, Peca’s works are often inspired by her personal interest in finding the meaning of life and highlighting the spiritual: “[This new series] it is an existentialist search for fundamental questions. For me, painting is a philosophical exercise of self-knowledge and universal knowledge, it is meditation and materialization of meditation.”
Peca: Allegories & Cupcakes
Opening reception: June 7, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Dates: June 7 – July 12, 2025
COREY HELFORD GALLERY:
Gallery 3: 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033
Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
(310) 287-2340
Open to the public and free to attend, Allegories & Cupcakes is set to debut on Saturday, June 7th from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Gallery 3, alongside a solo show by Pop-Surrealist painter, illustrator, character creator, and comic artist Camilla d’Errico, titled Fabled Realms, in the Main Gallery and a group show, titled The Surreal Real: New Contemporary Art Recently Unleashed, in Gallery 2. The shows will be on view at Corey Helford Gallery through July 12th.
From press release //
Allegories & Cupcakes is a series of sacred stories of the desert, an exodus of migrant souls tracing a path and leaving footprints. The nomadic mind in zero gravity trying to find the holy grail of existence.A trip where feet, paws, claws, clouds, sand, fluttering, cosmic movements, embroidered skin, holy fruits, delicious creams, ethereal breaths, floating beings, failures, fun, and loneliness are mixed in an organized equilibrium about to succumb.
About Peca //
Peca’s art transports us to a cosmos inhabited by mystical beings who act as our guides and mentors through its enigmatic existential terrain. The peaceful anthropomorphic residents of Peca’s universe carry great wisdom and impart their knowledge, when we are willing to look hard enough. Peca herself, is a master at sharing her own life’s knowledge and experience. She skillfully translates the images which appear to her through her dreams and meditations and turns them into wonderfully engaging visual narratives filled with her dream world’s native language of universal symbols. All that is left is for us to open our minds and hearts to the magical wonder of it all.
Born in Argentina and based in Barcelona, Peca is a painter, illustrator, and stop motion movie maker. She graduated with a Licensed degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bellas Artes of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The artist’s creations are a door to a dreamy and mystery universe, that you have visited before, perhaps in dreams, or astral travel. Welcome to the spiritual version of Wonderland.
About Corey Helford Gallery //
Established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer/creator Bruce Helford (The Conners, Lopez vs. Lopez, Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, and George Lopez), Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goal as an institution is to support the growth of artists, from the young and emerging to the well-known and internationally established. CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today’s pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti, and Street Art.
Want to learn more about Peca? Read our 2020 interview with her here!
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