walls of the building we stood on, “Fucking nice to put some color on
Despite the fact that their stylistic compliments stem from
it!”Levochkin’s family arrived in Los Angeles from the Soviet Union
stark differences, there is a conceptual outlook that binds the two artists
seventeen years ago. Influenced by a mixture of Japanese and American
strongly together. Both believe in inspiring people to create, addressing
animators, he first got a taste of their colorful cartoons on Sunday
the individual rather than society as a whole, and encouraging a spatial
nights as a child. “There was one TV station that would play American
awareness that travels to the very edges of the worlds they depict.
and Japanese cartoons, and they would run from 5pm to midnight on
As Devin and Gosha work towards hitting that stride and
Sundays. I remember how much more color they had than the Soviet
finding the perfect balance between their talents, they’re quickly
cartoons. Russian cartoons are bleak.”
building up a body of work for their first show, “Pressure,” opening at
Gosha paints the vivid watercolor worlds that he treads in his
the Soze gallery on March 1st. And given the work they are producing
imagination, polarizing both the overbearing, morose landscape of his
this early into their collaborative venture, you can be sure of a unique
birth and watercolor’s more typical roots in realism. And it’s this reaction,
creative experience when the opening night finally comes round.
fueled by an ethereal optimism, which defines his vast body of work.