J. Carino's debut solo exhibition, "Carry It With You," at Yossi Milo Gallery, reveals the intricate relationship between humanity and nature through a queer lens. The exhibition features lush landscapes and nude figures, connecting the artist's experiences in Colorado and California with broader themes of societal constraints and environmental disasters. Carino's work unfolds as an epic narrative that showcases moments of peace disrupted by calamities, paralleling the global precarity faced by LGBTQ communities. The exhibition opens on June 26, 2025, and runs through July 25, offering a profound reflection on identity and resilience.
Through portrayals of nude subjects out in the open, Carino takes a stance of peaceful transgression and resists societal constraints placed on queer people, on masculinity, and on nature all at once.
The artist draws heavily from the terrain of the American West in his visual language, recognizing his home territories of Colorado and California as loci of nature's power.
The story of Carry It With You begins in a pastoral and bucolic frontier, where Carino's subjects live in communion with the land and with one another.
As disaster rocks Carry It With You, so deepens its parallels to the environmental shifts faced by communities in California and beyond, as well as its allegory for the global precarity of LGBTQ safety.
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