E-scape: Luca Sára Rózsa & Dickens Otieno
Steve Turner is pleased to present E-scape, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Budapest-based Luca Sára Rózsa and new weavings by Nairobi-based Dickens Otieno. Both artists make works about the environment and humanity’s connection to it. Rózsa uses loose and expressive brush strokes in lustrous color to depict feral humans in nature. Four of her works relate to the elements of fire, water, air and earth while two relate to war and peace. Otieno creates large-scale colorful wall weavings and floor sculptures made of strips of soda cans. Whether depicting a rural or urban scene, he uses aluminum cans to emphasize the impact of humans on the environment. E-scape suggests a new genre of landscape painting, one that conveys the widespread anxiety for our planet’s future.
Born in Budapest in 1990, Luca Sára Rózsa grew up between Brazil and Hungary. She returned to Europe to study at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary (2009-2012); Universitate di Arta si Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania (2011); Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (2012-2017) and Jan Matejko University of Fine Arts, Krakow (2015). She has had recent solo exhibitions at Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); ABC- Arte, Milan (2024) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022 & 2023).
Dickens Otieno (born 1979, Migori, Kenya, lives Nairobi) has had solo exhibitions at Circle Art Agency, Nairobi (2018, 2020 and 2023); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2021) and has had works in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania Nigeria, France, England and the United States.