This vibrant artwork features a striking crimson background adorned with delicate white silhouettes of butterflies. The composition is dynamic, with the butterflies appearing to flutter across the canvas. The use of negative space and the stark contrast between the bold red and the ethereal white shapes create a sense of movement and visual interest. The simplicity of the design, coupled with the medium's tactile quality, suggests an artistic style that is both minimalist and expressive. This piece likely explores themes of lightness, fragility, and the ephemeral nature of life, capturing the graceful essence of the butterfly in a captivating and thought-provoking manner. ...
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. ...
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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