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Los Angeles artist Mario Ayala’s solo show AUT Of Body is a voyeuristic and inquisitive portrayal of the vehicle as a soulful being. For Ayala, growing up and currently living and working in Los Angeles, the car is an ever present force, figuratively and literally indispensable. He is part of a wave of painters using representative analogy and unconventional combinations of motives to echo a discursive reality. The auto body shop as subject is calling to mind an operating room repairing, replacing and manipulating organs, tendons, muscles and features. By conflating the terms auto body and …