Cultivating Dreams

Osmegeos means twins in Portuguese.  It's also how a pair of identical twins from Sao Paolo brands their candy-colored artwork.  

"The Dream Traveler" (2023)

Born in 1974, the twins have been expressing themselves in drawing ever since.  Subway graffiti has been a big influence on their style.  Boom boxes and animals frequently appear in their work.

"There'll Be Music Today" (2023)

Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo started out as break dancers. "Curating Dreams," an installation at the Lehman Maupin Gallery, causes instant nostalgia with the recreation of a record store.

Music--playing from an actual turntable--draws you inside to peruse the LPs that likely would have had you shaking your booty at a disco in the 70s.  Some of their covers have been customized.

Doesn't this look like an altar to feeling good?

I didn't get the names of all the paintings exhibited but they looked as home on a gallery wall in Chelsea as they would have on the IRT forty years ago.

"The Sun Meeting The Moon" (2023)

Their paintings aren't always static.

I love the embedded dogs.  They're guileless, kinda like Osmegeos.

Detail from painting directly above