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LORENZO HURTADO SEGOVIA
Danza del Venado (Deer Dance), 2017
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
Graphite on Paper
11.5 x 10 inches
Location: Social Sciences Building, Second Floor
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is interested in how various people interpret religious beliefs and in the many ways they are represented through ritual and artifact. His artwork often combines craft traditions with themes of personal anecdotes, Christian theology, art history, and ethnographic motifs. Although founded in painting, much of the art that he makes incorporates various vernacular materials and techniques including beads, embroidery, weaving, paper, and carpentry. The resulting aesthetic is an intricate and multi-layered synthesis of figuration, abstraction, and decoration. In its fusion of modern formalism and indigenismo, Hurtado Segovia’s practice employs an almost syncretic aesthetic, speaking directly to a synthesis of aesthetic sources and cultural referents. In a recent project, the artist returns to simple graphite drawings, including one of the Yaqui Deer Dance of Sonora and Sinoloa, fusing iconography pulled from the pre-Columbian history of Mexico, but as seen through the modern, Catholic country that it is now.
Born in Cd. Júarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Hurtado Segovia graduated with a BA from UCLA and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. In 2015, the Vincent Price Art Museum organized his first museum solo exhibition, Mis Papeles, a survey of work from 2007 to 2014. Additionally, his work has been featured at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the LA Municipal Art Gallery, and in the SUR Biennial. His work is in the collection of The Hammer Museum and Murals of La Jolla, the American Embassy, as well as several corporate and private collections. Hurtado Segovia is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Otis College of Art and Design.
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