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Abstract figures pulsating with symbolism and emotion; imagery as macabre as it is mesmerizing; dynamic conflagrations of texture and detail: these are the elements of “Ladders to Fire,” a transfixing exhibition of the work of Kayla A. Escobedo ’12. On display...
“Ladders to Fire” is Escobedo’s second solo exhibition and her first off-campus showing since coming to Harvard. Gallery intern and curator Emily X. L. Xie ’12 arranged the exhibition, selecting a wide variety of Escobedo’s...
The juxtaposition of deliberately symbolic and more instinctive, visceral works lends dynamic heterogeneity to the exhibition. In addition, Escobedo uses a diverse range of media, from pen and ink drawings to acrylic and oil paintings on expansive canvases.
Oscillating between abstract and figurative, drenched in symbolism, and at times verging upon the grotesque, Escobedo’s “Ladders to Fire” ignites the intimate gallery space of 263. Her work encompasses both a personal significance and a universal emotional resonance. The exhibition comes at...
Andrea Fraser: I started doing museum tours in 1986 when I was twenty. It was at an exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in the summer of 1986. I only did two years of high school. I moved to New York in November in 1981...