Artist Alexis Mata presents "Lost Landing," a solo exhibition at Thinkspace gallery in Los Angeles featuring fantastical, glitched landscapes. The show includes oil paintings and watercolors where familiar elements like cacti, dandelions, and skies slide into abstracted, overlapping forms, inspired by Mata's experience walking in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Works such as "Cacti and Clouds Glitch" and "La Noche De Los Cactus Voladores" explore themes of migration, rooting, and growth in surreal, otherworldly terrains. The exhibition runs through June 27.
This exhibition matters because it offers a poetic meditation on how life forms travel and adapt to new ecosystems, using visual glitches and surreal juxtapositions to challenge perceptions of landscape and time. Mata's work invites viewers to reconnect with wonder and discovery, positioning his art within broader conversations about ecology, migration, and the transformative power of the natural world. The show also highlights Thinkspace's role in showcasing contemporary artists who blend surrealism with environmental themes.