Saturday August 11, 8:00-11:30 pm, CoproNason presents Kathie Olivas’s, “Ghosts & Martyrs” new paintings & custom toys. They have the whole show online so take a look and contact them If you are interested In anything.

Mutant children, legless dogs and evil rabbits inhabit Kathie Olivas’ aberrant post apocalyptic universe. She cynically uses the inherent preciosity of children playing dress-up to create a world where only children and a few seemingly cute animals survive an unnameable catastrophe.

Using a wonderful visual sleight of hand, Olivas first draws you in with rich, seductive color and childlike trophies only to leave you mystified and perturbed by her disturbing fantasies. “Ghosts and Martyrs” is the second solo exhibition for Kathie in Los Angeles; her first debuting one year ago. This exhibition will feature over 30 paintings and 25 custom toys.

Over the past year, Kathie’s backgrounds began to lose the scumbly, dreamlike colors and have turned darker, and more foreboding. Cemeteries peek from illusory fog, and large black hooded figures loom nightmarishly behind the prescient children. The devastated landscape now sprouts desiccated trees and bushes blooming with candy are anything but sweetness and light.

The show will run through Sept. 1.