July 8, 2024

Cuando Estoy Contigo

Exploring the borderlands through the art of Karlito Espinosa. (8:44)
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Karlito Miller Espinosa is an interdisciplinary artist bursting with ideas, living and working in Tucson, Arizona. He explores themes of politics, migration, regional history, capitalism, and institutional violence through sculpture, traditional oil painting, and muralism. His work intertwines field research, personal narratives of a multinational upbringing with representations from the visual canon of art history to expose contradictions of power, authority, and social structure. Miller Espinosa graduated from the MFA program at the University of Arizona in 2019 and was a studio program resident for the prestigious Whitney Independent Studies Program in 2019-2020. You can see his work on the north side of the Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona and in the Kasser Family Wing of Latin American Art at the Tucson Museum of Art.



Karlito Miller Espinosa es un artista interdisciplinario lledno de ideas e vida que trabaja en Tucson. Él explora los temas de política, migración, historia regional, capitalismo y violencia institucional a través de la escultura, pintura al óleo y muralismo. Él entrelaza su trabajo con investigación de campo, narrativas personales de una educación multinacional con representaciones del canon visual de la historia de arte para exponer contradicciones de poder, autoridad y estructura visual. Miller Espinosa se graduó de la Universidad de Arizona en el 2019 donde era un residente del programa estudio para el prestigioso Whitney Independent Studies Program del 2019-2020. Puedes ver sus obras en el lado norte del Joseph Gross Gallery en la Universidad de Arizona y en el Kasser Family Wing of Latin American Art en el Tucson Museum of Art.

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