Helianthus
Jamie Felton and Lauren Quin

Opening Reception: Saturday August 24th, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates: August 24th – September 21st, 2019

I have two sun flowers that sit in my back pocket

Their Stems poke through the holes of my weathered jeans and tickle my ankles as I walk
These Two prickly furred pipe cleaners bellow and touch the floor with their toes

Two heads mingle around my back shoulders like wirey demon children
that take their coffee black and eat hot fries all day

Each claiming a butt cheek of their own Each having a mind of their own
Each taking over an eye of mine
Each claiming a booster seat in my car

I see through sunflower eyes now
Everything has a red glare that halos over the sky.

- Jamie Felton

Lauren Quin, "Braided to Irides", 48 x 72 in, Oil on canvas, 2019

Lauren Quin, "Test Prick Target Site", 54 x 70 in, Oil on canvas, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Common Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 13” x 7” x 7”, 2019

Lauren Quin, "Palms", 48” x 72”, 2019

Lauren Quin, "Auxin", Oil on canvas, 54” x 70”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Sawtooth Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 13” x 5” x 5”, 2019

Jamie Felton, Thinleaf Sunflower, Glazed ceramic, 13” x 4” x 4”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Prairie Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 12” x 5” x 5”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "California Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 14” x 76”, 2019

Jamie Felton, NEGLECTED SUNFLOWER, Glazed ceramic, 12” x 4” x 4”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Swamp Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 13” x 5” x 5”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Desert Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 11” x 4” x 5”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Cucumberleaf Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 12” x 4” x 4”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "White Leaf Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 11” x 4” x 4”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Pearl in the landscape", Glazed ceramic, 30” x 25”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Woodland Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 10” x 4” x 4”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "3 Crazy Legs", Glazed ceramic, 7” x 6” x 3”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Neglected Sunflower", Glazed ceramic, 18” x 18”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "4 Crazy Eyes", Glazed ceramic, 6” x 5” x 3”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Sunflower 1", Glazed ceramic, 18” x 18”, 2019

Jamie Felton, "Holding and Orange over the sunset", Glazed ceramic, 20” x 16”, 2019

Guerrero Gallery is pleased to present Helianthus, a two person exhibition by Los Angeles based artists and friends Jamie Felton & Lauren Quin.

Helianthus is the latin name for sunflowers, those beautifully tough stalks topped with a brilliant yellow and brown flower, following the repetitious arcs of the sun, day after day. Within Helianthus, both artists through varying means ruminate on this majestic plant–Felton constructing a ragtag family of playfully sinister ceramic sunflower seedlings bedecked in melting patches of variegated glazes, while Quin’s gestural paintings speak more loosely to the repeated acts of this sun-hungry species–weaving the echoes of voluminous shapes and angular incised drawings into compositions that wholly reject an easy reading.