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Art between nature and urbanity.(SPOTLIGHT: RUBEN OCHOA)(Brief article)
IT IS RARE FOR an artistic work to enter our everyday surroundings. But the concrete urban sprawl is precisely where Ruben Ochoa's work functions best. One of his best-known works, a collection called Freeway Wall Extractions, is of photographic murals plastered onto sections of freeway walls, creating the illusion that a section has been removed. Ochoa imagines what exists behind the barrier and asks the viewer--in this case, the grumpy driver, perhaps--to do the same.
Ochoa, who received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and is of Mexican descent, has had his work shown at LAXART in Los Angeles, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York. Having grown up in Oceanside, California, the artist is familiar with the geographical segmentation of communities. "From a young age, I learned how to navigate across boundaries based ...
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