Elmer Guevara "Yesterday like today / Ayer cómo hoy" @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

Charlie James Gallery is proud to present Elmer Guevara: Yesterday like today / Ayer cómo hoy, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work, Guevara explores ideas of intergenerational memory and trauma, reflecting on his own family’s experience of civil war and unrest across time and space. The paintings meditate on the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, which tore through South Central near where the Guevara family settled after fleeing violence in El Salvador. Time folds in on itself in these paintings, layering the civil war, which predated the artist’s birth, on top of the chaotic experiences of 1992, while also gesturing to the natural disasters and political unrest of the present moment. Despite his…