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The Violators, 2019 – Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art – Project Space, New York, NY
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“Hand-cut and pasted-up porn magazine pages graphically homo-eroticize whimsical adorations of the penis. These analog collages form the underpinning to his digital pastiches that employ complex cutting and configuring to create an inventive layering. Coded into these handmade amalgamations is a commentary heralded by a blast of hard-core queer smut from another time; together they retrieve a culture vanquished by the internet age. Esparza revivifies print porn as he creates outrageously sexual erotica that gives homage to a vanished genre of gay civilization.”
– Phil Tarley, 2019
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