Suburban Scenes, Poetic Paintings and Apocalyptic Art

The light in the gallery is subdued, of the sort that museums employ when they're showing old photographs that might be damaged by too much illumination. The recent paintings of Jorge Tacla (b. 1958), however, are made of oil paint and cold wax on canvas, so the relative shadow in which they're displayed seems to have something to do with their subject: the dark side of the human condition.