Redwood artist Ken Keirns has a thing for monkeys. That much is obvious enough. His site is crawling with them, in his toys, illustrations, and paintings. By his own admission, he ‘likes painting women and monkeys, with a sense of humor’. And so he does. Very, very well.

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California-based artist Andrew Brandou draws from the children’s books, as well as the tripped-out, cult obsessed, disillusioned zeitgeist of the 70s when his early consciousness took shape. The storybook-ish quality of his works creates a sort of narrative of the tectonic shifts that have taken place in the psyche of an entire generation — anthropomorphic animals frolic in subtly Japanese-lacquer-inspired landscapes as gas-mask-wearing cops creep, grinning skulls loom, elevated freeways overwhelm the rising sun, and bloody murder scenes remain hidden just beyond the view of the paintings’ innocent subjects.

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Californian-based artist and Lost At E Minor contributor, Jenn Porreca, has an exhibition of works showing at Distinction Gallery, in Escondido kicking off on May 10th. Of the exhibition, Porreca says: ‘the show I am in is with Alex Willan and the beautiful Jeni Yang. These pieces, which I began working on last November, are heavily influenced by the silhouette films made by German artist Lotte Reiniger during the early 1900s and are a commentary on the rising ocean levels, the dark yet hopeful political climate we are in, and are a response to my recent trip to my home country of England after eighteen years away’.

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I love the rich color and strong thematic imagery in the artwork of Ronald Llanos.

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