Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to announce Prelude to the Sun, a solo exhibition of new work by Sandra Cinto in Los Angeles, on view through July 2, 2025. This will be the artist’s eleventh show with the gallery and second in Los Angeles. For over three decades, Sandra Cinto has explored the potential of drawing to create intricate images and immersive environments, often using the line as a gesture to deconstruct the physical and conceptual boundaries between painting, sculpture, photography and installation. For Prelude to the Sun, Cinto will create a large-scale, curved wall drawing, enveloping the viewer in a golden sky. The sun is an inspirational element for the artist, not only as a symbol of warmth and life, but also as a reminder of the passage of time. Delicately repeated motifs such as stars, waves, cliffs, bridges, and swings, comprise a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines that construct a lyrical landscape, hovering gently between fantasy and reality. In all her work, especially her installations, Cinto challenges the limits and possibilities of drawing and uses it as a powerful means of connection. The gold walls of the gallery transport the viewer on a journey through the cosmos. Using tondo and oval-shaped canvases, Cinto explores the cycle of dawn to dusk in a series of new paintings. In a blue and gold palette, the tonal shifts throughout the gallery transition from light to dark, and back again. Reminiscent of airplane windows or portholes, they seem to look over the edge of the earth, flying into the sun. Cinto transforms the gallery spaces into a cosmic vessel from which to witness time itself and invites the viewer on a meditative journey, as if gazing out the window while in flight. Together, the works create a representation of the cosmic energy of the universe and a poetic reflection on the passage of time from yesterday to today to tomorrow.