We are pleased to announce “Erica Vincenzi: Now and Again and Yesterday Once More,” an exhibition of new and recent paintings by this young Los Angeles artist. “Now and Again and Yesterday Once More” is presented in conjunction with Rochelle Gomez: It’s Just Not the Same Without You.” Both shows open on Saturday, April 5 with an artists’ reception from 2:00 - 5:00 pm at as-is In her first one-person exhibition at as-is, Erica Vincenzi presents a number of sometimes brightly colored and always lusciously painted small and medium-sized oil on linen artworks. The paintings feature an array of strangely familiar images—flowers, landscapes, the occasional figure—often based on her own snapshots. Indeed, the term “snapshot” captures the notably casual tone set by her choice of subject matter. Vincenzi’s paint application however, while similarly relaxed, proceeds with a self-confident flair that compels the viewers’ attention, artistic form thus forcing manifest content into a richly productive tension. We are pleased to announce "Rochele Gomez: It's Just Not the Same Without You," an exhibition of recent artworks by this young Los Angeles artist. "It's Just Not the Same Without You" is presented in conjunction with "Erica Vincenzi: Now and Again and Yesterday Once More." "Rear lit" may be an apt metaphor for the five artworks by Rochele Gomez now on view as it describes both their particular manner of presentation as well as the wistful, retrospective attitude adopted by the artist as she addresses aspects of her own past. Each artwork consists of a single medium-sized color photographic transparency mounted in a white metal box and lit from the rear. And each photo depicts a different home the artist and her family occupied as they moved in and around Los Angeles from the years of her childhood and adolescence, to the present as an adult. Animating what might otherwise be a dry, documentary account is the introduction of an oversized placard featuring the cartoon character Garfield, who functions as an unlikely "tour guide" adding pathos and providing the needed formal continuity from house to house and image to image. "Real estate is the soul of Los Angeles," complained more than one jaundiced visitor to this city over the years. Gomez says much the same thing here, but with far greater understanding and affection.