As the sun rose
Feb 7 — 27, 2026
“As The Sun Rose” painting exhibition takes us through a first hand account of the devastating Eaton Canyon Fire, that took place on January 7th 2025. All the works were painted from inside the Fire Zone by Alejandro M Lopez a resident of Altadena who moves us through the Trauma, Melancholy and Ultimately Hope in the Re-Birth of Nature. The exhibition is intended to create a dialogue around how Climate Change impacts people revealing a unique vision that goes beyond words.
ARTISTS
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Alejandro M Lopez
VENUE
- 住所
- EPOCH 4F, 2-6-18 Higashi, Shibuya City, Tokyo 150-0011
- Tel
- 07031921804
- 開館時間
- 14:00 — 19:00
- 休館日
- Sun・Mon
- 入館料
- 無料
- 備考
- SATURDAY OPEN 11:00-19:00
NOTES
Alejandro M Lopez was born in Los Angeles and upon completion of his studies at Art Center College of Design, he left the U.S. spending 25 consecutive years living and painting across four continents. He now resides in California and Japan.
For Alejandro connecting to the grandeur of nature is fundamentally important to his process of creation. Each painting is reflective of the solitary journeys he takes, often alone for weeks, far from people and within the depths of nature in some of the most iconic, majestic landscapes. And rather than realistically painting what he sees Alejandro draws on his 5 elements training and opens himself to what he feels—the resonance of nature and its fluid, ever-changing, all-powerful reflections and manifestations.
In this sense, his work attempts to go beyond “the thing itself” and capture the spiritual nature, the timeless energy of existence of being alive and connected to nature in that very moment.
Alejandro uses handmade canvas boards, as well as canvases made from raw Belgian linen in order to work in the most organic, natural way possible. The strokes of ink and paint used to manifest his paintings are a combination of uniquely blended East-meets-West style which draws on his years of training with Japanese materials such as sumi ink, Japanese pigment and binding agents, washi paper and silk, along with western acrylic based pigments, mediums and inks.
Each work is painted out in the wilderness. Alejandro says that the destinations find him, listening to the quiet whispers, following light that moves him this way and that until he arrives as if invited by nature itself. The final paintings leave unfinished spaces so as to emphasize the core essence of a place, the minimal strokes and gestures capture the timeless nature in that moment as he aligns his heartbeat with the beat of the universe and thereby matches his own inner nature with the natural world.