Remnants of Distance
On view through March 16, 2025
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Beaumont, Texas
www.amset.org
“Remnants of Distance” includes large-scale “constructions” made from serape thread wound on wooden supports and mixed media paintings. Esparza explores material culture by “re-instilling lost value in found objects.”
Esparza first drew international appreciation through his deconstruction of the Mexican serape. Drawing inspiration from modern architecture, physical landscapes, and mid-century minimalist artists, Esparza depicts dramatic one and two-point perspectives to form striking dimensionality and volume. The artist diffuses color and expands space by weaving serape thread around nails to form a grid. Geometric structures present in his drawings and sculptures re-imagine his own Mexican-American cultural heritage.
[Image: Adrian Esparza, Remnants of Distance exhibition installation.]
