OPENING RECEPTION

June 7, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

ON VIEW

June 7 – July 12, 2025

Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) is proud to announce its next major solo exhibition by Argentine painter, illustrator, and stop motion filmmaker Peca, marking her first solo at the gallery. Set to premiere June 7, Allegories & Cupcakes will be on view in Gallery 3 through July 12.

Peca creates dreamlike and mystical worlds populated by anthropomorphic creatures and mystical beings. Her art is often inspired by her own dreams, visions, and meditations, which she translates into vivid visual narratives filled with universal symbols. Her childhood in Argentina was marked by the brutality of the military dictatorship, from which she found refuge in music and painting. After studying fine arts in Buenos Aires, Peca moved to Barcelona in 2001, where she now lives and works.To take us along on her visual journey, which begins in the otherworldly and continues with the invocation of countless fantastical creatures, Peca employs a diverse range of media (including oils, acrylics, and pencils).

Regarding her new series, Peca shares, “My work is inspired by my personal interest in finding the meaning of life and highlighting the spiritual, it is an existentialist search for fundamental questions. For me, painting is a philosophical exercise of self-knowledge and universal knowledge, it is meditation and materialization of meditation.”

Adding, “Allegories & Cupcakes is a series of sacred stories of the desert, an exodus of migrant souls tracing a path and leaving footprints. The nomadic mind in zero gravity trying to find the holy grail of existence. A trip where feet, paws, claws, clouds, sand, fluttering, cosmic movements, embroidered skin, holy fruits, delicious creams, ethereal breaths, floating beings, failures, fun, and loneliness are mixed in an organized equilibrium about to succumb.”

About Peca:

Peca’s art transports us to a cosmos inhabited by mystical beings who act as our guides and mentors through it’s enigmatic existential terrain. The peaceful anthropomorphic residents of Peca’s universe carry great wisdom and impart their knowledge, when we are willing to look hard enough. Peca herself, is a master at sharing her own life’s knowledge and experience. She skillfully translates the images which appear to her through her dreams and meditations, and turns them into wonderfully engaging visual narratives filled with her dream world’s native language of universal symbols. All that is left is for us to open our minds and hearts to the magical wonder of it all.

Born in Argentina, Peca graduated with a Licensed degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bellas Artes of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The artist’s creations are a door to a dreamy and mystery universe, that you have visited before, perhaps in dreams, or astral travel. With several international solo and group shows at world-renowned galleries under her belt, along with the confidence that comes with believing art can bring you another life, Peca invites us to a magical world where fantasy repose on fields of strawberries.