cruising

rafa esparza

cruising, 2021180.34 x 121.92 x 3.81cmSign in to view price
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acrylic on adobeCommonwealth and Council
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a vibrant collage depicting an urban scene. The composition is dominated by warm earth tones, punctuated by stripes of blue and a bold yellow sign reading "RESTAURANT DINE IN SUSHI BAR." The central focus is a vintage automobile, rendered in realistic detail, with a driver visible inside. The overall aesthetic suggests a gritty, street-level perspective, capturing the energy and diversity of a bustling city neighborhood. The artist's intention appears to be a commentary on urban life, blending realism and abstraction to create a thought-provoking visual narrative. ...

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rafa esparza
Artist
rafa esparza
B.1981, American

rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, and kinship, his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and what he calls (non)documentation as primary tools to investigate and expose ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives, history, and social environments. esparza’s recent projects are grounded in laboring with land and adobe-making, a skill learned from his father, Ramón Esparza. In so doing, the artist invites Brown and Queer cultural producers to realize large-scale collective projects, gathering people together to build networks of support outside of traditional art spaces. ...

rafa esparza: Artworks
victory
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victory, 2021
116.84 x 86.36 x 3.81cm
love
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love, 2021
114.3 x 81.92 x 3.81cm
cuauhtlikeepers
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cuauhtlikeepers, 2021
27.94 x 33.02 x 26.67cm
metamorphosis
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metamorphosis, 2021
121.92 x 91.44 x 3.81cm
coatl
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coatl, 2020
39 x 76.2 x 60.96cm
cuauhtlikeepers
rafa esparza
cuauhtlikeepers, 2021
22.86 x 38.1 x 31.75cm
cuauhtlikeepers
rafa esparza
cuauhtlikeepers, 2021
27.94 x 36.83 x 17.78cm
citlali
rafa esparza
citlali, 2021
121.92 x 92.08 x 3.81cm
cruising
rafa esparza
cruising, 2021
180.34 x 121.92 x 3.81cm
vuela vuela
rafa esparza
vuela vuela, 2021
7.62 x 208.28 x 692.78cm
taquerita
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taquerita, 2021
180.34 x 121.92 x 3.81cm
Bonampak: Structure | Bird's-eye View
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Bonampak: Structure | Bird's-eye View, 2021
7.62 x 193.04 x 557.53cm
Guadalupe: Florecer
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Guadalupe: Florecer, 2021
152.4 x 106.68 x 3.81cm
G's Up
rafa esparza
G's Up, 2021
152.4 x 106.68 x 3.81cm
La Pow
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La Pow, 2021
152.4 x 106.68 x 3.81cm
Meño: Driver's Seat
rafa esparza
Meño: Driver's Seat, 2021
152.4 x 106.68 x 3.81cm
Rush: Holographic
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Rush: Holographic, 2021
152.4 x 106.68 x 3.81cm
thanks for staying alive Fern.1994
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thanks for staying alive Fern.1994, 2019
133.35 x 93.98 x 4.44cm
starshots: blue roses
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starshots: blue roses, 2019
173.99 x 114.3 x 4.44cm
Clutch
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Clutch, 2019
78.74 x 15.24 x 12.7cm
Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red)
rafa esparza
Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red), 2019
25.4 x 27.94 x 20.32cm
Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Agua (blue)
rafa esparza
Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Agua (blue), 2019
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Taquero
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Taquero, 2021
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big chillin with Patrisse
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big chillin with Patrisse, 2021
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Yosi con Abuelita
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Yosi con Abuelita, 2021
182.88 x 144.78 x 3.81cm
Tayhana
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Chalino
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Chalino, 2021
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Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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