Wesley Larios
Wesley Larios
Wesley Larios; Selections from The Journals of Fernando Bravo, 2022; Inkjet photo prints, text; Dimensions variable; Photography by Evan Walsh
Wesley Larios; Selections from The Journals of Fernando Bravo (detail), 2022; Inkjet photo print; Dimensions variable
Wesley Larios; Selections from The Journals of Fernando Bravo (detail), 2022; Inkjet photo print; Dimensions variable
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SELECTIONS FROM THE JOURNALS OF FERNANDO BRAVO
The work is a rumination of a dip along Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights. The dip is a moment of a long fissure running north to south, from the southeast corner of the Evergreen Cemetery and flattening out on 8th Street, somewhere near the middle of the Wyvernwood Garden Apartments. One can imagine it being a creek, a small tributary to the Los Angeles River. The segment of the fissure I am thinking about was filled in, covered up, and segmented by the 60 and 5 freeways.
BIO
Wesley Larios (b. 1992, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist and teacher. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, then moved to New Haven, Connecticut for graduate studies. After receiving his MFA in 2017, he moved to New York City and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is now Visiting Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts and UC Riverside. He works slowly on essays, films, drawings, books, and photographs from his Depression-era shed in East LA.
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