Mexican-American artist and El Paso native Adrian Esparza creates installations for “Spectra: Work by Adrian Esparza,” now on exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, by deconstructing everyday, mass-produced items (posters, T-shirts, serapes). He unravels a brightly colored serape, for example, and stretches the individual threads across a wall. He says his tendency to work with found items comes from growing up in a home in which objects were routinely reused and recycled.
“Spectra: Work by Adrian Esparza” is on display in the Front Gallery in conjunction with “Dark Light: The Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse,” which is in the Main Gallery.
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