“Conventions around high and low materials of the art world
reflect power structures
and the materials become a metaphor for brown bodies”
— Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray . CONTEMPORARY at Bluestar
“Against the backdrop of the classed and Racialized scripts
that inform the dominant habitus of the art world, Escobedo’s art subverts the neoliberal impetus of “walking in someone else’s shoes”
and
instead interrupts common scripts of recognition.It couples disidentification with visual abundance.”
— Noemi Molitor . BE Magazine
His works... relay the connections between consumption and the built environment in which segregation, gentrification, and stratification continue to restrict upward mobility, especially for people of color.
— Elyse A. Gonzales. Ruby City
&
Mia Lopez. McNay Art Museum