Jaime Muñoz speaks concerning the motion in contrast to many artists working at this time. He paints the motion of labor, circuitously, however in a means that speaks to the mechanics and construction of how motion and labor are interconnected, and the methods wherein labor will get from one place to a different. By an virtually industrial, good airbrush approach, Muñoz makes use of the utilitarian strategies to discuss a historical past of California, immigration, migration, labor commodification and the car. Born in LA, finding out at UCLA and now primarily based in Pomona, he has discovered a means to discuss California via acquainted iconography however carried out in a refreshingly new means. Once I spoke to him a couple of years in the past in a characteristic within the Summer season 2023 Quarterly, he instructed me, “I’ve by no means considered myself as an artist who makes work about LA, though one of many central focuses in my work is commodity labor, and that theme undoubtedly has a spot in LA or any metropolis wherever business and labor exist. I do consider that this sense of instability inside labor is because of the fixed battle that working folks face each day simply to outlive.” The actual fact he calls his first museum present Fact Is A Transferring Goal appears completely to suit. —Evan Pricco
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes presents Jaime Muñoz: Fact Is A Transferring Goal, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition that includes large-scale mixed-media work and ink diagram drawings. Because the gallery notes, “Curated by Karen Crews Hendon, LA Plaza Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator in partnership with Jaime Muñoz, the number of work on this exhibit comes from a number of non-public collections and presents a chronological and aesthetic evolution of Muñoz’s work from 2019 to 2024, together with his Toyotería and Blood Reminiscence sequence, providing a complete exploration of his creative evolution and thematic depth.”
