John Akomfrah: Purple ICA Watershed Rafa Esparza: Staring at the Sun, ERRE: Them and. Rafael is currently based in New York City, New Yor. Or at least a resurgence in looking at street photography.
RAFA ESPARZA STARING AT THE SUN SERIES
Be sure to click on all the tabs on the left (“Understanding the Project” and “The Artist”). Then learn about Eliasson’s project Ice Watch: Maya Lin Start with an overview of Maya Lin’s series of Wave Fieldworks: Read this interview to get a better sense of her thinking about the relationship of art to environment to activism: (I could not get the images to load on my browser, but the words are very good). Rafael Esparza works at Or Olam -The East 55th Street Synagogue, with an estimated 7 employees. Rafa Esparza Start with a video describing his work inspired by adobe and the Los Angeles River: Then read this exhibition brochure from his show last year at MASS MoCA, “Staring at the Sun”: Then watch his artist talk, presented by the Hammer Museum on November 19th - note, this talk is VERY LONG you could watch half of it (though it’s really good!): Play Video Olafur Eliasson Start with the Tate Museum’s overview of his project The Weather. Where do you see overlaps of interest? How are the artists engaging their viewers? How are they thinking about space and place? What connections can you draw between these artists (the artist you are focusing on) and other work we have looked at? As always, I am looking for you to be thoughtful in your reflection, to be clear and specific in the qualities you are discussing - whether those qualities relate to ideas or to specific materials and aesthetic choices around process. Summarize the main concerns of their work (based on these materials) and set them in relation to other artists we have looked in this class. Esparza often works with collaborators, including members of his family. Esparza’s point of departure is a meditation on bridges and bodies of water as sites of connection and healing, division and risk. His work includes physically exhaustive performances and installations constructed out of adobe bricks. This newly commissioned work by Rafa Esparza is an ambitious, three-part performance at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art.
from the University of California, Berkeley and a second M.A. Check out this immersive installation and get a chance to meet the artist, who will be in the museum. In 2019, he curated staring at the sun, a solo exhibition featuring rafa esparza at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA).
For this discussion, focus on one artist from the three posted (Rafa Esparza, Olafur Eliasson, Maya Lin). Staring at the Sun, de la Calle: Rafael Esparza (born in 1981) is an American performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Rafa Esparza: staring at the sun is now on view.
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