Youth Devouring Size:Default Size hairless ceramic creatures—often adorable but

hairless ceramic creatures—often adorable but also unsettling and bizarre

dead ideas (the skull that it is perched upon) and clutches a magnifying glass to better read by candlelight

Emilio Villalba received his BFA from the Art Institute of California in 2006 and his MFA from the Academy of Art University in 2011

and consequently she was never encouraged in her development as a draftsperson

As a situation it represents an opportunity for artistic or creative learning and expansion

Youth Devouring Size:Default Size hairless ceramic creatures—often adorable but6 x 14 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed