Enrique Chagoya / Jon-Paul Villegas June 5 - July 6, 2023 Enrique Chagoya Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new work by Enrique Chagoya. Chagoya's exhibition will feature the artist's contemporary hybrid re-configurations of historic images from different periods in art history. 'Sampling' pictures from Mayan codices, Pop Art, 19th Century French paintings, to name a few influences, the artist layers the images, compressing centuries of art-making into a layered incongruous portrait of culture's changes. These works are both printed and painted, onto canvas or sometimes onto Amate paper, the pounded paper pulp made from tree bark, used by the Aztecs and other tribes to make pictogram codices. The materials and methods revived by the artist demonstrate the centuries of changes in cultural priorities. Playing with cultural stereotypes, heroic icons and cartoon figures in a deliberately anachronistic manner, the artist gives a humorous collapsed view of art historical principles. Chagoya has exhibited internationally with work represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. He currently teaches at Stanford University. Gallery Paule Anglim has represented the artist's work since 1988. Jon-Paul Villegas Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new work by Jon Paul Villegas. Villegas' exhibition in Gallery II will combine sculptural and two-dimensional works in a flowing installation of colorful shapes and objects. Using found objects, commercial office supplies and pigmented acrylic and glues, the artist has formulated his own visual language. The shapes and colors are linked as a system, metaphorically addressing the ever-present systems of our lives, whether computer, socio-political or legal. This will be the second exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim for Villegas. A graduate of Stanford University in American Studies, and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Villegas approaches story-telling with visual components that take viewers through network news, horror films, advertising and the legends of American 60's Pop and abstract art. Villegas was also been selected for New Langton Arts Bay Area Award Show 2000. Please join us for a reception for the artists at Gallery Paule Anglim on Thursday, June 6th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.