Edgar Arceneaux b. 1972, Los Angeles. (Lives and works in Los Angeles) Edgar Arceneaux subjects his meticulous draftsmanship to a variety of translations of preexisting images so that the works take on a mysterious relationship with the source. He often erases, redraws, or cuts up imagery such as scenes of car crashes and portraits of famous personages that then become elements ripe for reassembly, resulting in the reordering of our relationship to memory—the blur replacing specificity and emotion trumping rationality. Arceneaux has had solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Galerie Kamm, Berlin. Group exhibitions include Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism at the University Art Museum, Santa Barbara; Urban Aesthetics, African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Visit YBCA to learn more about the Wallworks exhibition. www.ybca.org NOTE: Edgar's installation is no longer viewable. YBCA presents Wallworks the highly anticipated curatorial debut of Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCAs newly appointed Director of Visual Arts. For the exhibition, YBCA commissions local, regional and international artists to use the literal aspects of YBCAs architectural space, built in 1993 by acclaimed architect Fumihiko Maki, as a starting point to create new large-scale works directly on the walls of both its galleries and <b>...</b>
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