Artist Talk: Hugo Crosthwaite & Carolina Miranda in Conversation

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-07:00

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Artist Talk: Hugo Crosthwaite & Carolina Miranda in Conversation
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Artist Hugo Crosthwaite and culture critic Carolina A. Miranda discuss the themes in Hugo Crosthwaite's practice and exhibition, "Ex-Voto."
About this Event

Join us on Saturday, March 22nd for an Artist Talk with Hugo Crosthwaite and Carolina A. Miranda on the occasion of “Ex-Voto,” the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Refreshments will be served from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m., followed by the talk from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Hugo Crosthwaite and cultural critic Carolina A. Miranda will discuss the exhibition as well as overarching themes in Crosthwaite’s prolific 25-year endeavor in expanding figurative art as a means for storytelling and visualizing the many layers of myths, histories, and socio-political dynamics of Mexico, the border, and its global manifestations.

In Ex-voto, Crosthwaite employs color as an emotive device to paint the stories, vows, and miracles of everyday people, icons of resilience and perseverance. Crosthwaite resists simplistic interpretations and dismantles frameworks of hierarchy, class, and politics, altering power dynamics to evoke an urgent reminder of humanity’s common ground.

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Many thanks to our refreshments sponsor, Topo Chico.

About the Speakers:

Carolina A. Miranda

Carolina A. Miranda is an independent culture writer and critic based in Los Angeles, covering visual culture, design, performance, books, and digital life. Until early 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she produced in-depth reports on subjects such as the intersection of art and race, how communities are rethinking the nature of monuments, and how architecture is shifting to accommodate a denser L.A.

Her stories and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Alta Journal, Artnews, the New York Review of Architecture, and Fresh Air, and she is a regular contributor for public radio station KCRW. Miranda is a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism and a 2024 recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She also served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the first newsroom union in The Times’ nearly 140 years of existence.


Hugo Crosthwaite

Hugo Crosthwaite lives and works in San Diego, CA, and Rosarito, Baja California. A dual American and Mexican citizen with family on both sides of the border, Crosthwaite spent his formative years in Rosarito and graduated from San Diego State University in 1997 with a BA in Applied Arts.

Crosthwaite was awarded First Prize in the 2019 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for his stop-motion animated video A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez, and subsequently the portrait commission for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, another stop-motion animation portrait that debuted at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., in 2021.

Crosthwaite’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Morgan Library and Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; San Diego Museum of Art, CA; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; University of Arkansas Art Gallery, Little Rock, AK; FEMSA Collection, Mexico City; CECUT/Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; and numerous private collections.

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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 1110 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, United States

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