Working with Post-Cubist forms and deeply considered
metaphors about mythology and life in Southern California, Ewing built a significant career that was recognized with over thirty solo exhibitions at museums and galleries.
Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [
About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a
metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the
mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.