CB1 Gallery
207 W 5th St
213.806.7889
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Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia at CB1 Gallery
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Apr 24, 2010 – May 23, 2010
Wednesdays–Thursdays (noon–6pm)
Fridays (noon–7:30pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not really a painter. He's a conceptualist — which is to say that even when he does make actual paintings, as with the current series at CB1, it's because that is what was required in the service of a larger idea. In the case of by Deborah Calderwood, the idea is both straightforward and fraught with personal and aesthetic peril. Basically, he found a stash of drawings in his in-laws' attic that his now-wife, Deborah, had made in grade school, and set about remaking them in a slightly more complex idiom. Wrestling with his instincts as a professional artist in order to access the childlike bravado and glee of the (astonishingly mature) originals, he produces a series of quirky, hybridized versions that speak to the vast differences between true naïveté and an acquired outsider stance.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
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There will be a gallery talk with the artist on Friday, May 21 (6:30pm).
CB1 Gallery says:
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia's work is informed by multiple sources ranging from personal anecdotes to art-historical and ethnographic motifs. He usually works on multiple bodies of work within the same timeframe, each with its own content and formal qualities that are distinct from each other.
As the eleven-year old creator of the drawings upon which these works are based, Deborah Calderwood's name is painted onto most of the works, thus honoring and complicating their authorship. These works are emotionally and psychologically charged as Deborah grew up to be the woman the artist married, Deborah Hurtado Segovia. Each work directly borrows from the found drawing's pictured subject while amplifying their formal qualities through process, media, color and composition.
