No Place

A Swamp Tale

Greg Ito

No Place Gallery is pleased to present A Swamp Tale , a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Greg Ito. Ito builds his own world in A Swamp Tale with paintings, sculpture, lighting, sound, and installation. Upon entering the gallery, the viewer is transported into Ito’s world, one in which clues like an offset candlestick, a message in a bottle, or a slithering snake reminiscent of the one on the cover of Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays all point to a larger narrative to unpack. These evocative genre symbols are rendered in Ito’s distinctive ligne claire style and purple, blue, pink, black, and orange palette. Like a dream, the swamp is a space where the past, present, and future collapse into a bog of our mired hopes, fears, accomplishments, and failures. Join us on a journey that navigates these and the murky perils of love, loneliness, magic, and reality.

Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is a Japanese American artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Ito has recently exhibited at Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Et al., San Francisco; Jeffrey Deitch, New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Steve Turner, Los Angeles; and Mon Cheri in Brussels. A current exhibition is running at the Drake Hotel in Toronto. Ito’s upcoming exhibitions include Penske Projects, Los Angeles; Division Gallery, Montreal; Ochi Projects, Idaho; Smart Objects, Los Angeles; and Weiden + Kennedy in Portland, OR. His recent press includes write-ups in Art Forum , the Los Angeles Times , LA Weekly , CARLA , AUTRE , Amadeus Magazine , LALA Magazine , C Magazine , Los Angeles Magazine , MOUSSE , Libertine Dune Japan , and San Francisco Chronicle .

A Swamp Tale is curated by James McDevitt-Stredney.