EDUARDO SARABIA / ERIC WESLEY 10 SEPTEMBER - 11 OCTOBER, 2003 PRESS RELEASE REVIEWS BIOGRAPHY EDUARDO SARABIA ERIC WESLEY IMAGES	PRESS RELEASE Eduardo Sarabia and Eric Wesley will open the season at Sutton Lane with parallel exhibitions of their continuing drawing series. Eduardo Sarabia's latest examination of romantic concepts is his ongoing project 'Dedicated to You' which started from a Los Angeles radio program called the 'Art Laboes Killer Oldies Show'. The show offers listeners an hour to dedicate love songs to whomever they wish. Over the past ten years the program has been adopted by gang members and their lovers to help lift their spirits. The works produced in this series capture a sentiment created by the original dedication and take on a different direction. In "People Make the World Go Round" and "If I Could Turn Back The Hand Of Time" the artist has taken popular songs and interpreted them in his own style with drug traffickers and lovers. Eric Wesley launches his "Settle Out of Court" series with a series of water colours originating from a joke that asks: "What do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?" The answers: "A good start." The artist's source material was photos taken of lawyers on vacation scuba diving. The final product attempts to balance hatred and admiration of what may rival prostitution as the world's oldest profession: talking. The "lawyers" act as collector items, interacting, fighting and forming alliances, they explore the classic themes: man vs. nature, man in harmony with nature, and finally, man vs. man. Sarabia was born in 1976 in Los Angeles, and graduated from the Otis College of Art and Design. His work has recently been exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and OPA in Guadalajara. Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in Los Angeles and studied at UCLA in Los Angeles. His has had exhibitions at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and the ZMK in Karlsruhe, Germany. For visuals or further information please contact Sabine Spahn at 0207 253 85 80 or send an email to info@suttonlane.com