About this Event
Event Details
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents Scott Carrillo Azevedo’s first solo museum exhibition, The American Home—The Broken Promise. Please join us for an opening reception on Saturday, May 16, at LBMA Downtown.
5:00-7:00 PM - Members See it First! Only Active Members with ID will be allowed entry
- LBMA Members Only reception includes complimentary light bites and beverages.
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7:00-9:00 PM - Public is Complimentary
- Galleries have limited capacity. An RSVP does not guarantee entry.
About the Exhibition
Azevedo’s work reflects deeply personal and social histories of exclusion, particularly redlining in the Los Angeles area that impacted his family of Mexican heritage. These experiences have evolved into an artistic practice centered on reconstructing lost family histories through painting.
After relocating from his home in Palm Springs to New Haven, Azevedo began incorporating imagery from vintage magazines such as The American Home to reimagine family narratives shaped by systemic racism, cultural erasure, and personal tragedy—including the early death of his grandparents.
Ultimately, the work explores themes of identity, loss, and belonging. Through portraiture and disrupted domestic spaces, Azevedo creates metaphors for navigating life between cultures, informed by experiences of racial ambiguity, queerness, and economic hardship in America.
Artist Bio
Scott Carrillo Azevedo (b 1983) is an emerging artist who lives and works in New Haven, CT. He graduated from Sacramento State in 2022 with a dual degree: a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History. In 2024, he was an artist in residence at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. He has exhibited at 63 Audubon by Yale School of Art; the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, and Kingston, NY; ART06870 Gallery, Greenwich, CT; and in the LGBTQIA+ Artist Campaign at Golden1 Center, Sacramento, CA. Carrillo Azevedo has worked as a floral designer, which is evident in the foliage and flowers that dot his canvases as well as the ornate shapes created on plywood. He is a virtuoso painter, ranging from the meticulous depiction of people to more expressionist areas of paint applied to the canvas. Whether rendering scenes of family history of individuals, his paintings radiate with color and gesture, suggesting a celebratory attitude despite a past plagued by abuse, marginalization, and erasure.
Suggested parking:
- LBMA Downtown has a parking lot in the rear. However, parking is highly limited.
- Harvey Milk Promenade Park (185 E 3rd St, Long Beach, CA 90802- City Place: Lot C) offers 2 hours of free parking and is .2 miles (4-minute walk from LBMA Downtown).
- AirGarge: 401 E 1st St., Long Beach, CA 90802 is a smaller lot that you must pay to park at. This is 5 min away (.2 Miles)
Artwork:
Scott Carrillo Azevedo, Husband and Husband (detail), 2025
Oil and Pearl Ex pigment on canvas
60 x 84 inches
Collection of Ron Nelson and David Schnur
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
LBMA Downtown, 356 E 3rd Street, Long Beach, United States
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