Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Nehemiah Cisneros: Burning Desires, an exhibition of new paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist, his first with the gallery. The muted palette and soft finish of the paintings in Burning Desires constitutes a brand-new body of work for Cisneros, whose previous work drew heavily on the flattened space, bold color, and outlandish figuration of comics and street art. This new direction finds him adopting a more introspective stance, exploring themes of growth and change and remixing art history in a suite of intimate self-portraits that serve as imaginative diary entries that transform the mundanity of domestic living into fantastical, allegorical scenes.