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As part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, BLUM is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashid’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Part 2.

This second installment in Rashid’s Epoch of Totalitarianism series rejoins the artist’s fictional Frenglish conquerors—whose visual tale the artist has authored for upwards of fifteen years—in the 1800s as they attempt to maintain a stronghold in the Americas. Drawing an intentional parallel to the history of the Spanish Empire in the Californias, Rashid emphasizes the …