For Immediate Release
My Temple
On view: March 1st – April 7, 2025 | Reception: March 1, 2025 4-6 p.m.
Artist John Weston’s solo exhibition My Temple, opens March 1st in Torrance, Calif.
The show is a tour de force, a vibrant display of explosive color that is full of hard edges and soft curves, deftly mixing geometric and abstract patterns that are both intense and mesmerizing. From hot pink to pale pink to blues, greens, lavenders, and some juicy orange, too, the artist’s work is a fresh, bright mix of pop and op art, and sensual vibrations.
Working in acrylic, flashe, spray enamel, enamel and spray paint, Weston’s latest body of work celebrates the body itself, and our interplay with physicality, sexuality, and joy. It would be difficult for viewers to approach this work without feeling a flush of exuberance and a sense of delight.
Reminiscent of rainbows and harlequins, cosmic worlds, magic mushroom visions, sexy shapes and counterculture patterns, the exhibition is trippy in the best way. My Temple is a visionary experience of Weston’s art, visually galvanizing, and just plain cotton-candy-carnival fun.
body as a temple
If My Temple speaks to the idea of the body as a temple, it also speaks to the idea that Weston’s own personal temple is that of the spirit which inhabits our physical selves. His dynamic work integrates a variety of pop art tropes including his vivid palette, his connection to the current cultural zeitgeist, and his overall conceptual approach, one that asks viewers to consider, question, enjoy, and reimagine that with which they are most familiar – themselves.
Using his signature bright palette and undulating, nearly psychedelic forms, Weston’s playful compositions are exciting not only as visual art, but as a commentary on contemporary life, the human view of ourselves and our bodies, our relationship with emotions, the spiritual, and the physical, as well as how each of these elements of ourselves and our world intertwine.
Sublime Fusion
By exploring our own physical and innate emotional presence in the world, the artist conveys a deeply intriguing, rich, and yet lighthearted assessment of human culture, the act of creation, and, as Marvin Gaye once sang, “sexual healing.”
Weston’s use of mosaic-like patterns, his penchant for the decorative, and his coalescence of uniquely current themes and meaning with kaleidoscopic pop elements is both subversive and sublime. Expertly fusing a mix of high art and pop culture, the artist challenges viewer boundaries between the two, creating a startling visual alchemy that sparkles with purpose.
