Artist Rafa Esparza moves a load of earth for 'Made in LA' exhibition
UCLA Art Alumnus Rafa Esparza '11 tells KPCC about his installation at the Hammer Museum
Ralph Esparza '11 (B.A., Art) talks about his process, his family, and why he ultimately decided to participate in the Hammer's biennial Made in L.A. 2016.
"Rafa Esparza is an installation and performance artists who focuses on queer and Chicano history and was born and raised on L.A.'s East Side. All of this made him apprehensive about participating in this years "Made in L.A." biennial at the Hammer Museum.
'I remember when I first learned about the initial "Made in L.A.," I had questions about what the city was becoming, and what a biennial would do to the creative communities in the city,' Esparza said.
'I love the diversity of cultural production in the city, and thinking about biennials as surveys, but also exhibitions that attempt to centralize a lot of cultural production, and do it within museums — this museum in particular being not as accessible to different art communities that are further east — [I wondered], Why does Los Angeles even need a biennial to begin with?'"— Oscar Garza, June 9, 2016
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