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Los
Angeles artists Miguel Angel Reyes & Rick Castro present Miguel& Rick's "!Quinceanera!"
A mexican tradition - Quiceanera signifies a coming of age (15 years) and
landmark in a young Latin ladies life?
Miguel & Rick take this term to commemorate 15 years of creating sexy, sensual
and erotic images depicting male latino as objects of adornment & lust,
therefore becoming a "Coming Out" into the arts society!
The exhibition will feature drawings from life, paintings, silkscreens &
photography depicting Latinos, Chicano's,Guero's, homeboys, vatos, cholos,
caballeros and cochinos!
Featured artist are - Miguel Angel Reyes, Hector Silva, Ruben Esparza, Gregory
Borquez, Dino Dinco and more!!
Antebellum Gallery is located at 1643 North Las Palmas Avenue,
in the heart of Hollywood.
general hours- wednesday through saturday- 12-6pm.
phone# 323 856-0667
Artist Bios
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Miguel Angel
Reyes |
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Miguel Angel Reyes
- was born September 29th, 1964 in Colima, Mexico. He immigrated to the United
States in 1975.
Miguel has consistently been a prolific artist since graduating from Oits
Parsons school of design in 1987 with a BFA in fine art.
Miguel is a Los Angeles - based portrait and figurative painter, muralist,
printmaker and illustrator. Miguel incorporates expressionist brushwork and a
saturated palette in celebration of the classic latin tradition. Miguel's
accomplishments as a photographer informs the way he creates paintings and
prints. When not working from life, Miguel begins by shooting his own
photographs on the street, clubs, in studio and elsewhere. Whether working from
life or photos, his pieces always create an intimate connection between subject
and viewer.
His art has been exhibited throughout the U.S including - Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago and Alaska. Miguel has created murals for the Los Angeles
MTA, and bus ad campaign for LA County Office of AIDS - AIDS/Living Responsibly
campaign. Miguel's work is in the collections of LACMA print collections, Laguna
Art Museum, Watts Towers Arts Center, University of Austin, TX, and Fine Arts
gallery Museum, Chicago.
Miguel's clients include - Genre, Flaunt, Guess Jeans, Forest Witaker, Tom
Skerritt, Davis Factor, Luis Barajas and Jim Turner. Miguel has been the
recipient of the 2001 CSW Artists of the Year, 2000 WEHO Awards/Artist, 1998
VIVA Arts Award and the 1992 VOGUE/SOTHEBY'S Cecil Beaton Award.
Miguel's artwork has been published in LA Times magazine, Blue, Chicano and
Latino Artist of Los Angeles, and Saludos Hispanos magazine.
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Hector Silva |
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Hector Silva |
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Suerno |
Hector Silva
- is a self-taught artist based in
Pomona, CA. He has been producing work for more than 20 years. Born in Ocotlan,
Jalisco, in Mexico, Hector moved to the US at the age of 17.
Hector discovered his talent for drawing in his late 20's. Living in Los Angeles
with it's rich Chicano culture, Hector draws from both gay identity, and the
Latino tradition. Hector's art is often juxtaposed with homoeroticism and
religious iconography. Among his influences are pornography, Tom of Finland,
Frida Kahlo, M.C. Escher and Chicano prison art. His subjects are proud brown
men, Latinos who exude an overt sexuality communicated by their gaze. As in real
life, it is sometimes unclear whether this is an invitation or a threat. Hector
explores themes of cultural identity, eroticism and beauty. His mastery of light
& shadow on skin is captured on paper with pencil.
Hector was the prime muralist for the landmark gay disco, Probe. Hector's work
has been featured in films, both mainstream and porn. He has exhibited in Los
Angeles And San Francisco.
In 1997, Hector was awarded 1st prize as emerging erotic artist by the Tom of
Finland Foundation. Hector's receives acclaim in the US and abroad. His work is
collected internationally.
Hector's work was published in the 2005 edition of Triumphs of Our
Communities:4 decades of Mexican American Art, and Queering the Homeboy
Aesthetic by Richard T.Rodriguez PHD.
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Ruben Esparza |
Ruben Esparza
- is a graphic designer and illustrator in Los Angeles. Ruben was born in El
Paso, Texas and graduated from The Art Institute of Houston in 1982.
Ruben considers himself as the outsider using visual language of the marking/advertising
aesthetic, and the corporate insider who makes incisive, subversive and witty
comments about our, "consumerist world gone amok!" His work is pointedly
subversive, using prepackaged text and highly stylized and simplified images to
create, "readable stop signs".
In the juxtapositions of seemingly very simple elements, Ruben creates highly
complex ideas that undermine each other. He customizes his modular images to
satisfy our ever-changing psychic demographics. In Esparaza's world, where the
institutions of consumerism exist to fulfill all our desires, his work exists,
custom-fit, to swing on the pendulum between joy and terror. Consumers no longer
need to fritter their time away with the process of trauma when they can acquire
Esparaza's prepackaged angst.
Ruben Esparza has been included as part of a group of California artists that
explore the new genre of "Conceptual Pop". A subtle, complex and
ultimately elusive decoction regulation of 1960's Warholianism with elements of
Op, Finish Fetish and Conceptualism, compounded into waggishly contrived
visual puns which takes swipes at art history, mass communication, and media
moronity while posing serious questions of epistemology and seismology. Ruben
has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Diego,Texas, Boston, Chicago, Mexico and
Madrid~Spain. His work has been published in Artweek, LA Weekly, Los Angeles
Times and Tentaciones. Rubens artwork was also featured on Entertainment Tonight.
He has created campaigns for American Express, Bloomingdales, The Los Angeles
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