This exciting installation by Tijuana-based artist Hugo Crosthwaite will be on view August 19 through September 12. It is the first exhibit for the 2024 fall semester at the Mesa Gallery. Part love letter to his city and part challenge to the traditional gallery experience, this exhibit will offer a unique peek into Crosthwaite’s creative process and show how the border narratives of his artwork come alive and resist the traditional institutions where they are presented.
Conceptualized by curator Smadar Samson, this exhibit will feature an immersive mural, animated video, and series of paintings, setting Crosthwaite’s work in compelling dialogue with one another. Dramatically interrupting Mesa College’s long gallery, a 12-foot cube structure will dominate and block the visitor’s focus, disrupting the visual rhythm of the space. This makeshift room will be the site where, over the course of two weeks leading up to the reception, Crosthwaite will engage in a live endurance painting session. Visitors will be able to peer through a window into the cube to watch as the artist improvises a new composition and invites onlookers to engage.
