Cruise Control Contemporary presents Familiars (Opening June 8th 2024 from 6-8pm), the debut solo exhibition of Bay Area-born, Los Angeles-based painter Arthur Wechsler. Here, Wechsler assembles an epistemological experiment in ten errant images, set astray from their referents in the strong current of familiarity. Familiars is a record of memory’s work, the mutually constitutive faculties of keeping and losing, as deployed on a variety of image sources—both distant and recent past, real and fictional, phantasmic and objectively material. Wechsler’s paintings do not claim to represent the image at its original encounter. Those images surrender themselves to a process—a circuit of memory and perception, oscillating between tenses, in which the painting is immanent material and which, left alone, would proceed ad infinitum. In a decisive moment, Wechsler pulls the plug; the painting is done. Here are the vestiges of ten broken circuits.