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 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafa_Esparza Rafa Esparza article goals:
 * add information to early life and education
 * add information to work and career
 * add photos

Early Life Points to add


 * Father ramon esparza
 * Found his calling to art when he entered University (citation 1)
 * Personal life: identifies as queer
 * Connection between work and family: his father taught him how to make adobe bricks; his brother (Beto Esparza) performed with him

Work and Career Main points to add:


 * work with adobe brick, and collaboration, many of his pieces use adobe brick
 * Performances art using his body
 * Performances at sites associated with oppression and violence
 * Work with lace
 * Whitney Biennial
 * “A la Calle” performance
 * Work with Commonwealth and Council
 * The meaning and implications within his work: queer history, chicano history (refreance to mexican revolutionary, voice for marginalized groups

Article 1)


 * born and raise in pasadena with his father Ramon Esparza (who use to manufacture adobe bricks in mexico) and mother
 * Personal life identifies as queer,
 * Father taught him to make adobe bricks and has collaborated with is father on pieces, this piece with includes using the technique his father taught him
 * His work is often about politic, the environment, questions of gender studies (this particular project emphasis ideas of masculinity and land rights
 * This article really good for describing his work and pieces
 * Mentions LACE projects

Article 2)


 * Work with  Con Safos, use of making bricks, and working with his fathers, using techniques from his father's to make brick, he works with family in projects

Article 3)


 * Description of his work,”which often mixes sculpture, site-specific installation and performance, addresses issues around queer and Chicano histories, as well as his own family experiences”
 * The use of handmade adobe bicks, which tire with his themes of family experience as his father use to make adobe bricks, as mentioned in article 1
 * Mentions Lace project
 * Includes a podcast, which not sure if we can use

Article 4)


 * Describes works as politically charged, queer performance art
 * Use of body as apart of his performance art, some of his work with that includes,
 * “He's inserted hooks into his chest as an homage to Aztec sun dancers; half-buried himself with a noose around his neck at Elysian Park gay cruising spots; and on a street corner across from downtown's prison, submerged his body in wet concrete and had to chisel himself out after it dried.”
 * Use of bricks and adobe structures mentioned again
 * His political themes, where uses bricks to discuss marginalized people who were targeted for their labor

Article 12


 * Installation art using traditional adobe bricks
 * “Made in LA” exhibition at the Hammer museum
 * “Tierra”
 * Bricks are made using dirt from Chavez Ravine—connection to Chicano identity and history

Article 13


 * Also about “Tierra”
 * Esparza hand makes adobe bricks with the help of his family members
 * Connections between his work with adobe bricks and his Chicano and Mexican identities
 * Also discusses his performance art—burying and unearthing objects in Elysian Park

Article 14


 * Esparza’s installation/performance art—burying and unearthing objects in Elysian Park
 * Connection to Mexican and Chicano identities
 * Connection to racial identities—black, mestizo, Latino
 * Historical connections—from pre-Columbian America to today

Article 15


 * Music video for “O” by Dorian wood features Esparza
 * Not technically esparza’s art?? But could count as performance art?

Article 16


 * Discusses three pieces of performance art
 * Mentions several collaborators: his brother (Beto Esparza), Nick Duran, Sebastian Hernandez, Dorian Wood
 * Performance art often takes place at sites with a historical connection to racial inequality/acts of oppression and violence—for example, the site of a mass lynching of Chinese immigrants
 * Esparza causes himself harm/puts himself in danger—cutting his own fingers, covering his face completely in plaster

Article 17

Article 18


 * Esparza won an Art Matters grant in 2014

Article 19


 * California Community Fund Fellowship for Visual Artists
 * Doesn’t seem to mention Esparza—might need to be removed

Article 20


 * Esparza born in Los Angeles in 1981
 * Esparza lives in Los Angeles
 * Esparza learned how to make adobe bricks from his father
 * Esparza is gay

Article 22


 * Installation at 2016 Whitney Biennial
 * Another work of adobe clay Articles 9,10, 11, 21 need to be taken out  Additional sources:  https://www.artpace.org/artists_and_curators/rafa-esparza  About LACE actual website:  https://welcometolace.org/event/rafa-esparza-i-have-never-been-here-before/  “A la calle” performance: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-rafa-esparza-ica-la-20180625-story.html  Academic source:  https://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=121929800&site=ehost-live

Early life and education[edit]
Esparza was born in Los Angeles, California to Mexican parents. He attended East Los Angeles College, in his early twenties, followed by UCLA.