Staff Calli recommendations PART 1! Come see Dispatches de Abajo by rafa esparza and more in our major exhibition, Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples before it closes this month, January 26. Through the adobe paintings, esparza imagines subterranean landscapes and juxtaposes potential proximities amongst expected relatives and unlikely paired objects. https://museumca.org/on-view/calli-the-art-of-xicanx-peoples/ #OMCA #Calli #XicanxArt | Oakland Museum of California

For the 2017 Biennial, Rafa Esparza built a rotunda out of adobe bricks made by hand from a combination of clay, horse dung, hay, and water from the Los Angeles River. In this video, he discusses the significance of working with adobe as “building up a space out of brown matter.” http://bit.ly/2eL5xdZ | Whitney Museum of American Art