Lola Gil

In her latest solo show, Who Are ( You ) Are Who, on view at Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles this past fall, stereotypical, almost frozen faces form the backdrop for her paintings, each featuring delicate, translucent glass animals in the foreground as glowing giants of light shine through, refracting myriad colors and angles, asking us to see the nuance, beseeching us to do the same with a stranger, or even someone familiar we haven't taken the time to understand.

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Who Are ( You ) Are Who...? This is where Lola Gil begins her new body of work, with a question and a play on words. Where in the early years of the century, Lola was playing with the extensions of reality through pop surrealism, her newest bodies of work and this show on view at Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, have subtle hints of surrrealism and obscured visuals. The glass animal figurines pose in the foreground while figurative elements are blurred in the back, and yet reflect with a mysterious clarity through the glass. That she uses stock imagery as the basis of each work seems to play with the idea of strangers, people that are used to tell a story who are almost employed to have no individual story at all. As the gallery notes, "These figures act as the protagonists of her paintings, highlighting the stranger as a sort of anyone and everyone character. " Anyone and everyone. Who Are (You) Are Who. 

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Lola Gil’s artwork in “WHO ARE (YOU) ARE WHO” features blurred figures engaged in various actions, deliberately obscured by glass animal figurines. The exhibition prompts contemplation of ethical questions related to human interaction.

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It takes a minute to get your head around Lola Gil's somewhat surrealist composition, featuring a glass dog foregrounding a portrait of a woman. While it's hard to catch a glimpse of the woman behind, her portrait is reproduced, warped, and duplicated in various forms, on the smooth, reflective surface of the glass dog.

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