I’m invested in continuing to work in public to broaden my audience to include communities that have also informed my work in other ways: people of color and lower working class people. Esparza: I have never been here before at LACE, 2015. What ecological problems might be solved by. Esparza often works with collaborators, including members of his family. with Thomas Lawson) at LACE, 2016 Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Verse Chorus Verse at LACE, 2016 and Rafa. Installation view of Rafa Esparza: Staring at the Sun at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. Check out this immersive installation and get a chance to meet the artist, who will be in the museum. Photograph of Jennifer Karady images, as installed in the.
and enlisted artists including Glenn Kaino, Rafa Esparza and Cassils. Rafa Esparza: staring at the sun is now on view. Acrylic on adobe panel (local Photograph of rafa esparzas exhibition staring at the sun. In 2019, he curated staring at the sun, a solo exhibition featuring Rafa Esparza at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. His work includes physically exhaustive performances and installations constructed out of adobe bricks. The New York Times Children of the Sun, an Art Show to Celebrate the Black. Flores is a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is a recipient of the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. My work responds to sites such that the people who routinely occupy them (in the case of Elysian Park, mostly Latinos looking for anonymous gay sex) become the intended audience for the work. Rafa Esparza is an American performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Places such as Elysian Park - a popular gay cruising site where I buried the lower half of my body into the ground, tied a noose around my neck, and for nearly 2 hours blew into dozens of clear balloons as a meditative gesture on manifest destiny - inspire me to create more work. I’m currently seeking to work outside of traditional art spaces. I attempt to inhabit moments in time inaccessible to me or inaccessible through performance and use my body to imagine, project, and create a space that can reveal the potential for a different now, a different future. My work is embedded in questions regarding ritual, identity, memory, and land.
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