Details
Description
The artwork features a simple, textured brown paper as the canvas, upon which a scene is depicted using white and blue chalk or paint. The composition centers around a figure in a kneeling position, surrounded by two standing figures. The overall style and technique suggest a rough, minimalist approach, with the emphasis placed on the essential elements of the scene rather than fine details. The artwork appears to convey a sense of community or support, reflecting the artist's intention to capture a meaningful moment or interaction. ...
Similar Artworks
rafa esparza
B.1981, Americanrafa 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
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico CityCommonwealth 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. ...