Danny Jaureui "There Goes the Neighbohood"
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
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In a process that he calls a "queering of architecture," Danny Jauregui examines "invisible histories" through his own experience as a young gay Chicano man living in Los Angeles. He commemorates an aspect of gay culture in Los Angeles before the AIDS crisis in his newest series, There Goes the Neighborhood, by reimagining former bathhouses in Silver Lake (the neighborhood where he currently lives) as abandoned ruins. The paintings are, in the artistʼs words, "memorials to the absence of memorials," indexing the conflicted history of radical gay sexuality.
These newest paintings feature soft-edged geometric grids rendered in monochrome shades of black and gray gouache on textured backgrounds. Jauregui creates the traces and stains of the "ruin," a central theme in his work, by sprinkling coarse salt over a wash of diluted paint which, when dried, is scraped away to reveal an intricate patterned surface. The works on paper are created using a similar combination of salt and gouache. Tiled walls are suggested by grid-like forms that the artist cuts into the thick paper. Composed of three layered sheets that have been attached at the top, the works are distinctly sculptural.
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from September 16, 2010 to October 30, 2010