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Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce Brown Noise, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Los Angeles based artist Esteban Ram贸n P茅rez. Rooted in themes of legacy, the duality of belonging, obscurity, and emanation, P茅rez鈥檚 interdisciplinary practice intertwines the cultural and artistic sensibilities of his Xicano heritage with the visual language of postmodernism, challenging conservative interpretations of existence.

Concerned with the intersections of materiality and iconography within American cultures, their implications, and their relationship to subcultures, labor practices, social classes, and socio-political histories, P茅rez鈥檚 work engages both personal and historical narratives. Spending much of his youth in his father鈥檚 upholstery shop, scrap leather craftwork is fundamental in both two and three-dimensional pieces. Across wall-works, either stretched on handmade local cypress frames with exposed cross-corners or hanging loose on short wooden poles adorned with feathers or metal studs, leather fragments are meticulously pieced together, layered, and re- haped, sewn to compose a uniform whole. Structural stitched seam lines establish architecture within the work, creating an abstract base to hold further figurations. Whether inscribing imagery with a modified tattoo machine or masking intricate forms then covering their surround in multiple, varied layers of translucent paints and metallic media, P茅rez鈥檚 nontraditional techniques both obscure and illuminate surface color and light, a metaphor for the duality of what is known and what is unknown.