Think about how many skincare ads you see in an average week. Online banners, television commercials, billboards and magazine pages all hawk a variety of products designed to make your skin wrinkle-free, unblemished, evenly-colored, small-pored and soft.

Each year, Los Angeles galleries return from summer vacation choosing a date for their next big opening. The Saturday after Labor Day has notoriously been the busiest day in the LA art world.

Images of an infant's face marked with a plastic surgeon's pen and an elderly woman with wrinkled skin that glows green under the light of a tanning bed are just some of the deeply disturbing images that will be displayed at Gusford Gallery as part of Oliver Jones's solo exhibition, "Love the Skin You're In"

In his latest series, Love the Skin You're In, British atist Oliver Jones considers the implications inherent in how the media advertises, manipulates and exploits the imagery of flesh. Rendered in colored chalk pastel, the artist's application and delicate handling of his medium mirrors the way in which we apply products to our own skin.

Currently on view at Gusford Los Angeles, Love the Skin You're In is Oliver Jones' first North American solo exhibition. Amazingly rendered in chalk pastels, Jones' larger-than-life photorealist works that comprise this exceptional show push viewers to question identity and the implications that come with the pursuit of perfection.

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In both his subject matter and technique, Jones underscores the rituals that are undertaken to simulate an impression of that which is reflected back to us in the media.

This contemporary art gallery represents emerging and mid-career local and international artists. We had the pleasure of meeting with #glowgirl, gallery owner and director Kelsey Lee Offield for a tour of the current exhibition.

Artist Oliver Jones strikingly life-like portraits questioning the pursuit of beauty and will go on display in a major solo exhibition in Los Angeles this Autumn.

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Using colored chalk pastels, Jones' utilization of both fragility and translucency bring out his subjects skin surface.

Birmingham-based artist, present his new serie LOVE THE SKIN YOU'RE IN, inspired on industry slogans and tag lines the works aim to re-asvertise a more thruth image of the flesh and the ritual undertaken to achieve these falsified visions that are too familiar

Plastic surgery, body wraps, creams, laser treatments, diets, starvation and the like are extremely unnatural aspects of human life.

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large scale photo-realistic drawings using paper and chalk pastel as their fragile properties reflect and enhance the fragile nature of the flesh.

It is this immediate and drastic change of environments that has led him to become perceptive and greatly analytical of the world around us.

Oliver Jones from Birmingham City University was selected from the six to continue onto a group show at the White Box Gallery in New York City.