Grab your friends and your family and head over to Thinkspace Projects this weekend as they unveil exciting new collections by Darel Carey and Erica Rose Levine as well as ‘toO sWeeT group exhibition, curated by The Perez Bros! Through layers of symbolic storytelling, the creative vision of each artist takes shape and unfolds in our minds like a flower reaching full bloom. What it reveals, we eagerly explore beyond what is immediately visible.
Dynamic optical illusions challenge our perception while the emotional terrain of texture and form evoke a sense of introspection and connection as each artist invite you linger a little longer. However, the experience doesn’t end there. Alongside these wonderful exhibitions, you can also catch ‘FRESH SERIES: Session Five’, curated by Cannibal Flower featuring the work of Raymond Argumedo, Laura Leigh, and Tanner Goldbeck!
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
‘toO sWeeT’ | Darel Carey | Erica Rose Levine
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2025 | 6-10pm
On view: September 6, 2025 – September 27, 2025
Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90016
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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.
’toO sWeeT’
Thinkspace Projects is pleased to present ‘toO sWeeT’, curated by The Perez Bros. ‘toO sWeeT’ is a presentation of 50 artists, working in a variety of mediums, that help to form the foundation of the brothers’ artistic community.
The term “too sweet” comes from the 90’s WCW faction New World Order (nWo). A simple hand gesture that started as a symbol of camaraderie and brotherhood within the faction, later evolved to represent a connection between wrestlers and unity within a faction. The group show ‘toO sWeeT’ curated by The Perez Bros pays tribute to that, by bringing together a group of friends and peers that the brothers admire.
Artist Statement:
Darel Carey likes to refere to his work as Dimensionalization… where two dimensions can be perceived as three, and vice versa. On a two-dimensional space, a flat surface, many lines juxtaposed in varying distances at different points can be perceived as three-dimensional. In a three-dimensional space, following a similar concept, lines moving from the floor to the wall to the ceiling can appear to occupy space in mid-air from various vantage points, which creates a perceived topographical space, transforming the visualized landscape of an area.
This dimensionalizing art compels you to look at a surface or a space differently, to contemplate your own perception and the environment around you. The goal is to navigate the line between what we see and what is, in hopes of better understanding the breadth of our visual perception.
About the artist:
Darel Carey is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Curaçao, and grew up in Colton, California. He served in the US Air Force as a language analyst, then separated in 2012 to pursue an art career, graduating from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016.
His current work includes abstract line drawings and optical tape installations. Visual and spatial perception are his main focus, using lines to shape and bend the perceived dimensions of a surface or a space. Darel has always had an affinity towards illusions and is fascinated by our visual understanding of the world around us. He is influenced by M.C. Escher in this regard. From tessellations to impossible geometric shapes and architecture, he enjoys the mathematical thinking involved in conceptualizing and contemplating such creations. Forming his line combinations organically, he appreciates the beauty of patterns found in nature, and attempts to embody these attributes in his art.
ERICA ROSE LEVINE, ‘Matriline’
Erica Rose Levine is a Brooklyn-born mixed media artist currently working in oil paint. A graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and The School of Visual Arts (BFA), her studio is within the MANA Contemporary complext in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Levine’s work blends the techniques of realism with symbolic storytelling. Through intricately rendered figures and porcelain-like animal forms, she explores themes of fragility, resilience, femininity, and inner peace. Drawing from mythology, nature, and cultural narratives, her paintings create a vivid world where serenity and strength coexist.
