“Grafitero del Desierto” – (images 1-4) Materials – rocks and spray can on dirt.
“Irrigation/flat line” – (images 5-8) Materials – red spray-paint on dirt.
“Destination” –(images 9-12) Materials – discarded objects.
“University” – (images 13-16) This work was created with the assistance of passerby’s. Materials – vehicle and wooded crates.
This exhibition, by two Chicago-based artists, explored a spectrum of visual ideas through original and provocative works. The pieces transform perceptions and ideas of human anatomy, identity, and social/cultural structures through depictions of natural and man-made forms. Jointly their works transform the space to depict personal and figurative forms, which reveal psychological elements that position portraiture beyond the traditional.
Razkuachismo is the marriage and contradictive fusion of high and low art inspired by urban and small town aesthetics. Razkauche (group exhibition) was curated by by Marcos Raya and was supported in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
The mural was photographed the previous evening before it was destroyed. I had just bought a really nice Nikon a few days prior to the whitewash of the mural. I would have been screwed without these photographs.
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