In the honest effort at representing true originality, a healthy break from reality is provided to us amply by Mr. Justin Ortiz, with his Babst Gallery opening show ‘Will I Live Again’. In the artist’s statement, with an unprovoked Yes, there is the sufficient base to the priming of a spectacular foray into imagination.

‘Spider’, 2026. Justin Ortiz. Oil on linen. 75 x 55 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Babst Gallery, all rights reserved.

‘Summoner’, 2026. Justin Ortiz. Oil on linen. 67 x 67 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Babst Gallery. All rights reserved.

‘Witness’, 2026. Justin Ortiz. Oil on linen. 75 x 41 inches. All rights reserved.

The courage to rely upon the time-true human body, the form of the physical cosmos furnished suitable for wear, with that movement away from beautiful ideal (to the common sense perception); informs of a movement of beauty which transcends the senses. The artist encourages a dreamy fascination with the certain expression of human psychic struggle.

‘Hat Trick’, 2026. Justin Ortiz. Oil on linen. 70 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Babst Gallery. All rights reserved.

The healthy encouragement of such dream-world ideas, so constricted, so wound-up, unto that neutrality of color tones to warrant an idea of daze in that slumberous wrestling meditated within each composition. With each proudly titled, imbuing the hidden detail to cosmic immersion, wherein the brushstrokes demonstrate that variety of mastery to titillate the eye as the unconscious quagmire reveals itself to the light of day.

Such a subtle tension of extension requiring such peculiar ideas of human shape, promotes the movement of taste unto the invisible, where beauty is discovered in understanding itself.

For more information, please contact the gallery:

Babst Gallery

413 South Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

(424) 600 2544

info@babstgallery.com