LBMA Downtown
About this Event
LBMA Downtown showcases rotating exhibitions by emerging and established artists, offering an intimate setting for contemporary art exploration. Its central location makes it an inviting stop for locals, visitors, and art-seekers alike.
Hours: Thursday-Sunday: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Admission: FREE
The Museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day
Current Exhibition- Scott Carrillo Azevedo, The American Home—The Broken Promise
About the Exhibition
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents Scott Carrillo Azevedo’s first solo museum exhibition, The American Home—The Broken Promise.
Azevedo’s work reflects deeply personal and social histories of exclusion, particularly redlining in the Los Angeles area that impacted his family of Mexican heritage. These experiences have evolved into an artistic practice centered on reconstructing lost family histories through painting.
After relocating from his home in Palm Springs to New Haven, Azevedo began incorporating imagery from vintage magazines such as The American Home to reimagine family narratives shaped by systemic racism, cultural erasure, and personal tragedy—including the early death of his grandparents.
Ultimately, the work explores themes of identity, loss, and belonging. Through portraiture and disrupted domestic spaces, Azevedo creates metaphors for navigating life between cultures, informed by experiences of racial ambiguity, queerness, and economic hardship in America.
About the Artist
Scott Carrillo Azevedo (b 1983) is an emerging artist who lives and works in New Haven, CT. He graduated from Sacramento State in 2022 with a dual degree: a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History. In 2024, he was an artist in residence at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. He has exhibited at 63 Audubon by Yale School of Art; the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, and Kingston, NY; ART06870 Gallery, Greenwich, CT; and in the LGBTQIA+ Artist Campaign at Golden1 Center, Sacramento, CA. Carrillo Azevedo has worked as a floral designer, which is evident in the foliage and flowers that dot his canvases as well as the ornate shapes created on plywood. He is a virtuoso painter, ranging from the meticulous depiction of people to more expressionist areas of paint applied to the canvas. Whether rendering scenes of family history of individuals, his paintings radiate with color and gesture, suggesting a celebratory attitude despite a past plagued by abuse, marginalization, and erasure.
- LBMA Members receive free admission, access to exclusive previews, and more. Join a dynamic artistic community that celebrates the power of the creative process, the value of art education, and the importance of art.
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