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Simchowitz is pleased to present ‘seconds from the end’, the first solo exhibition of the artist Mark Connolly in Los Angeles. Born in Ballymena near Belfast, Ireland in 1991, and currently based in London, Connolly’s medium-to-large oil paintings depict a labyrinthian maze of lush, cool-toned jungles and turbulent seascapes that are both real and imagined. Most are full of lions, leopards, tigers, crocodiles, snakes and other predators, but you will also find sea monsters, dragons, chimeras and devils alike. As the title suggests, these creatures are often shown in mid-battle, sometimes …