You can never truly escape the dreamer within, so why not embrace your creative spirit and join Thinkspace Projects as they honor an exciting lineup of new solo exhibitions by Crisselle, Benzilla, and Andie Taylor. These artists are known for their innovative approach and each bring a distinct voice, and perspective, to the artistic space. Whether you’re an art enthusiast or a curious creator seeking inspiration, immerse yourself in this vibrant celebration. From metaphors and forgotten moments to emotional landscapes and conceptualized characters, each collection will stir the waters of your imagination.
Plus, don’t miss the opportunity to see ‘FRESH SERIES: Session Three’, meticulously curated by LC (Cannibal Flower / Bittersweet) who selected some of his favorite local artists from his Cannibal Flower group shows – featuring RJ Quiralta, KOLA DPW, and Naoshi!
With such dynamic and thought-provoking narratives, these collections explore the diverse expressions of the individual and the power of art and community.
If you need a burst of inspiration, 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! With just a few clicks, you can browse through an extensive selection of art. Take a moment and visit Thinkspace Projects’ online store to view all available inventory, created by talented artists from around the world!
Thinkspace Projects Presents
Crisselle, Benzilla, & Andie Taylor
‘FRESH SERIES: Session Three’
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12th from 6-10PM
Exhibition Dates: July 12 – August 2, 2025
Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90016
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About the Thinkspace Projects //
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.
CRISSELLE, ‘Vertical Alignment’
Thinkspace Projects is honored to be hosting the debut solo exhibition for Crisselle from Santa Ana, California. We welcome her into our family and invite you to learn more about her and her uplifting work.
She’ll be on site all this week working on a site specific mural for her upcoming show, be sure to watch our socials for sneak peeks.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Vertical Alignment” is a visual metaphor of the emotional journey in one’s self. It’s an exploration of frustration, vulnerability, and ultimately “healing” (moreso the process of healing). Themes of being mean to yourself, beating yourself up, but also breaking patterns, learning to be kind to yourself, creating tender habits and looking within yourself are examples of the visuals that I visit with this body of work. These characters act as vessels of emotions and I want people to resonate with the journey if it applies with them.
This show was inspired by the term “Vertical Alignment”. I heard this term for the first time right as I was invited to create new works. The term just stuck with me -seemingly specific aspects of my life that I was working on to better myself affected all parts of my life, not just those individual things. The timing of everything that was happening to me felt connected with one another.
In a way, this new body of work commemorates a time in my life where I’m applying these concepts that I’m learning through therapy and my mentorship and applying them into all facets of my life.
ARTIST BIO:
Crisselle is a muralist and illustrator born and raised in SoCal, currently based in Santa Ana, California. She graduated from CSULB in 2018 with a BFA in Illustration. Her work is defined by her distinct style that features female-character led pieces and uses all opportunities to include them through various platforms including murals and paintings.
These characters are emotionally driven which fills Crisselle’s work with a lot of energy. She utilizes these girls to take up space in order to visually represent and translate emotions. Crisselle has worked with a number of clients including Converse, Google, American Express, and various cities including Pomona and Santa Ana. She has also been a featured artist at the international mural festival, World Wide Walls.
ANDIE TAYLOR, ‘Gravity’
We are excited to be hosting the debut U.S. solo show for Perth, Australia based artist Andie Taylor, who will showcase a series of new works in his exhibition ‘Gravity’ coming up this July at Thinkspace Projects.
Andie is an Australian oil painter with a BFA in Illustration. His fine art work is structured around a framework of subtle narrative components, connected like the cables on an old synthesiser to the droning undercurrent of philosophical questioning. Themes spanning time, memory, entropy and identity weave and meander together, dividing at times to explore new ground, all exposed through series’ of veiled visual metaphors.
Andie’s process is led by intuition, driven toward an aesthetic of balance somewhere between chaos and serene peace and intentionally avoidant of direct meaning. As a subliminal operation of self-discovery and reflection, each new work grows from the former, expanding as a universe of malleable icons at once, juxtaposed and harmonious. Andie’s worlds of brush strokes become tangible through his experience of this reality, but they can only be as meaningful as we may understand or assign them to be.
‘Gravity’ serves as a record of otherwise forgotten events. These moments emerge from a world much like ours but fashioned through distinct evolutionary processes. To contextualise this array of motifs, we must rewind back about a decade or so, to a period when the artist resolved that he could delve into his philosophical musings without conceding to didactic implications. The resulting landscapes transformed into contemplative concepts with intertwining conversing elements.
This lexicon of visual metaphors grew organically, morphing and reshaping their meanings over time. Beyond the binary constructs of the original concepts, an entirely new world unveiled itself, initially crafted by the artist but now beyond his grasp. In moments of stillness, the artist found himself transported to this world, a realm he hadn’t deliberately chosen. He curiously explored this land, deciphering its elements from the textures of decay to the overgrown moss. These fleeting, visceral visions before returning to reality became more frequent, revealing uncharted territories and posing more questions.
In the subsequent days, weeks, and months, the artist contemplated these experiences, their sensory impacts, and underlying significance. Embracing the metaphoric vocabulary he’d created years before, he delved into unfamiliar terms and concepts, seeking to decipher what he had glimpsed and what the new world was disclosing. What once constituted a defined language with boundaries and linear interpretations had now outgrown its origins, evolving autonomously. The artist transformed from its creator into a bystander, peering through a window alongside others, as the world itself determines its enigmatic revelations.
BENZILLA, ‘Surface’
Thinkspace is excited to present new work by Benzilla, born Parinya Sirisinsuk. ‘Surface’ is our sophomore solo show together and humbly invites viewers to explore the intricate complexities of our world.
With his signature 3-eyed alien “LOOOK,” Benzilla guides viewers through an exploration of paradox. Within the depths of each of us exists both the fiercest enemy and the most loyal companion. In these works that span mediums, Benzilla urges viewers to engage in a conversation with their inner selves, listening intently for answers.
As he explains “Through introspection, we shall uncover the essence of who we strive to become and what we yearn to achieve in this extraordinary journey called life.” Weaving together traditional painting, spray paint, and graphic art, Benzilla welcomes audiences to delve into the realm of curiosity and embark on an enlightening journey through the artistic.
ARTIST BIO:
Parinya Sirisinsuk, aka Benzilla, born in Bangkok, Thailand, is a graduate of Fine and Applied Art from Bangkok University, who has found profound inspiration in the realms of Pop Culture, Street art, Mythology, and Sci-Fiction Guided by the character “LOOOK,” 3 eyes alien that presents a concept of perspective of an outsider, Parinya combines the techniques of craft painting, spray painting, and graphic art to craft a mesmerizing narrative.
‘FRESH SERIES: Session Three’, RJ Quirlalta / KOLA DPW / Naoshi
Picking up where our Dog House series of shows left off, we have our very own LC (Cannibal Flower / Bittersweet) picking some of his favorite local artists culled from his Cannibal Flower group shows.
RJ Quiralta:
RJ Quiralta is a self-taught artist who was born and raised in México and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Quiralta’s artwork is a reflection of his joys in life, food, comics, pop culture and many other influences from around the world, including the cultures and traditions from his homeland of México. His goal as an artist is to bring joy to those who take the time to discover his work and hopefully be able to enjoy some sweet pastries and an occasional bike ride along the way.
KOLA DPW:
KOLA DPW is the pseudonym of Los Angeles-based artist Erick Thomas, created in response to what he saw during his time as a product designer for the fashion industry. While working overseas, Thomas witnessed firsthand the staggering volume of product, waste, and pollution caused by mass-production factory manufacturing. KOLA DPW was born from this experience, and his art became a commentary on global consumerism’s effect on our lives, the product culture it promotes, and our relationship with the natural world.
Naoshi:
Naoshi was born in Iwate, Japan, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Using shiny colorful sand, which is called Sunae in Japan, Naoshi creates sunae work. She gets inspiration from her everyday life in things such as her favorite sweets, breakfast, weather, and Japanese cultural artifacts. Naoshi likes to visualizes a fantastical world of her own, imbued with a sense of nostalgia.
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