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Rubén Ortiz Torres

Rubén Ortiz Torres
Mexico City, Mexico, 1964
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Rubén Ortiz Torres explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization. A plurality of parallel strategies spring from the various media he explores. His work is often centered around adaptation processes in specific and widely varied contexts and the subsequent transformations that they invoke—as signs and objects that constantly change their shape and meaning. The work of Ortiz Torres includes painting, photograph, video, collage, multimedia, and commercial products that range from baseball caps to pick-up trucks, all of which question the veneration of the art object and the degradation of folk culture and the vernacular. Since the early 1980s, he has produced a wide-ranging body of work and is associated with the development of a specifically Mexican form of postmodernism.

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Jungle Fever, 2010

Aeronautical aluminum honeycomb sculpture with ALSA eclipse urethane paint

16 7/8 x 72 1/8 x 24 1/8 in

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Bandera Magonista , 2013

Urethane and thermochromic pigment on resin

48 x 72 x 2.1 in

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White Washed America , 2014

Urethane and chromaluscent pearl on resin

41 x 191 x 2.1 in

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Lo que se ve no se pregunta, 2016

Urethane, metal flake, rainbow flake, chromaluscent powder,crystals and pearls

50 x 96 x 2.3 in

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Joker, 2012

Chromaluscent pearl and urethane on resin

48 x 48 x 1.5 in

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Rubén Ortiz Torres | Visiting Speaker | UH The School of Art

2022

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