The StartUp Art Fair is returning to Los Angeles this weekend and Los Angeles Art Association is proud to present the work of Peter Hiers in room 315.

With this work Peter Hiers explores that uneasy space of contradictory feelings about the big picture of modern existence, aware that pleasures and conveniences of today come at a cost to other life forms and to long-term human survival as well. Since 2000, he has gathered fragments of exploded tires from highways for this body of work in which he raises challenges to this lifestyle, sharing the disturbance he feels about the human trajectory. The organic flexibility, the wildly ripped textures and unusual qualities of this material allows him to raise questions about alternatives not only to a fossil fuel culture, but about ideological alternatives to the materialist American Dream mythology. Playing with new possibilities and creating new forms out of discarded, torn fragments gives him a momentary sense of hope that a new ideology can be created from the current predicament, improving the likelihood of ultimate human survival.

StartUp Art Fair
Opening Reception date & time: Feb 28 7-10 pm
Exhibition Dates: Feb 27 - March 1
Exhibition Venue: The Kinney Hotel, room 315
Exhibition Address: 737 Washington Blvd, Venice
Exhibition Website: https://www.startup-art.com/los-angeles