Multi-award winning Irish Artist Simon McWilliams brings his unique perspective on the urban landscape to the heart of Culver City's art district with an exhibition of his new paintings.

McWilliams takes his observations of the city around him and filters them through his bold, painterly imagination.  What he delivers is a fictional developing city, housing mysterious forms cloaked with impasto paint, reminiscent of Christo’s wrapped buildings. Not a drab concrete city but a new optimistic metropolis, resplendent in abundant, tactile colours, promising, “a glorious morrow”

Sound drawing and painterliness combine to produce a unique vision that is part fact and part fantasy.  Dust clouds created by ant-like workers on vast scaffolds, glitter in the sunlight taking on ghostly appearances.
Victorian palm houses burst with growth; a profusion of exotic plants and organic shapes, green shoots grappling and seemingly merging with the cast iron struts, the natural and the man-made conjoin, to harness and energise the environment.
Scott Yorko writing in Santa Fean Magazine described the work as, "Balancing structural chaos with sound colour harmonies, McWilliams brings us into a symbiotic partnership with his imagined big city surroundings, a healthy antidote to the real world sensation of being loose pieces scurrying around a maze of concrete buildings"

New paintings will be on exhibit from May 12th to June 16th, 2012

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