Installation
“Untitled” (Portrait of Russ in L.A.), 2019
After “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991
By Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Green colored cellophane wrapped candies
Various size configurations
I replicated the same installation that mirrors Gonzalez-Torres's work. Esparza also lost his partner Russell David Liebert to AIDS-related illness in 1989. Here the weight of candy is 140 pounds in green, Russell’s ideal weight. Esparza has decided to keep the candy intact as he wishes to remember him at his healthiest.
Pulse 49, 2017
Installation (far left) at ICA San Diego, California
A Site-specific installation realized for a meditation room.
Pulse 49, 2017
Artist’s blood on Arches paper (100% rag)
33 x 25 in. (83.82 x 71.12 cm.)
This work is one of two hand-painted artworks
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Home Free, 2015
Shopping cart, disco ball, various other materials
Various size configurations
Untitled (Flag), 2018
Zarape and flag remnants
73 x 42 in. (185.42 x 106.68 cm)
Self Portrait Piss Jar, 2020
Jar, Urine, Polaroid
Mixed media (ephemeral installation)
Signed polaroid (India ink) verso/unique
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm)
From the Archives to the Archives 2012…
Various reproduced protest signs.
Part of an ongoing project, where I reproduce LGBTQ+ protest signs (from 1960s to now ) as authentically as possible. I recruit people from all communities and create mock rallies activating said work. Also displayed in various settings as galleries.
Memento Mori, 2017
Underwear installation
Various size configurations
(as worn from artist’s past lovers, since passed)
GLoves (Blood Drive), 1995
Mixed media, mounted on painted canvas in Lucite casing
Triptych, Unique
36 x 12 x 3 in. (91.44 x 30.48 x 10.16)
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Last Stage of Death, 1994
Individual collage panels encased in Lucite
Unique
30 x 38 in. (76.2 x 20.32 cm)
I imagined a state-of-the-art sound and visual room (round with upholstered walls) to experience before your death while under the influence of LSD.