Justin Natividad: Sweet Heat
In Justin Natividad’s current exhibition Sweet Heat, carefully cropped studies of the male form serve as a pretext for the artist’s meticulous observations of light and shadow. More specifically, how they play across the delicate, vulnerable corners of the body in the peak of summer. Observed through a nostalgic lens for the golden hours of summer, sunlight bounces off the smooth surfaces of a pectoral muscle, a protruding rib, a collarbone, and ricochets across the figure towards the viewer.