Join us for the opening of Alethia Jones’s solo exhibition, Floating Between Chaos and Peace, opening Friday, June 2, 2023, from 6–9pm at Sala Diaz. This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary beverages and snacks will be provided.

In Floating between Chaos and Peace, Alethia Jones explores her personal mental health through painting. Utilizing vibrant, neon colors, Jones creates fantastical landscapes, or dreamscapes, sprinkled with hints of recognizable objects. Though made with paint on canvas, the works have a collage-like quality to them, furthering ideas of sampling different experiences and emotions. 

Alethia told Sala Diaz,” Like so many people on the planet, I have spent the majority of my life living with mental illness. After years of anger, sadness, and uncertainty, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD and Schizophrenia. The number of humans with mental illnesses on the planet has been increasing each year, with no end in sight. This body of work exposes the helplessness of one grappling with negative current events, but also suggests that hope does exist, and there is still much beauty to behold in this world.