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Ana Segovia

ANA SEGOVIA

MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia MOCA Grand Avenue 24 November 2024–4 May 2025 Los Angeles
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In his paintings, Ana Segovia (b. 1991, Mexico City; lives in Mexico City) twists assumptions about masculinity through a queer lens. Working with an aggressive palette of fluorescent colors, daring compositions, and cinematographic framing and cropping, Segovia undermines the gendered basis of national identity built around hypermasculine archetypes—such as the charro or cowboy—that have been standardized by film. The artist, who is a direct descendent of major players in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, an era spanning from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, has been using film stills drawn mostly from this auspicious tradition as a source for his paintings.

In MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia, he continues his engagement with film archives, this time turning to Roger E. Alamos’s_I’ve__Been Meaning to Tell You_ (1983). The film, a variation on 1980s musical dramas, recounts a love story between Buck, an aspiring artist, and Mario, an undocumented dreamer working as a ranch hand in a fictional Southwestern town. The exhibition presents three suites of paintings illustrating stills from crucial scenes in the film. Also included are copies of Alamos’s script and a mural based on the film’s end credits, both of which subtly stage an unexpected plot twist.

MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia is organized by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant, and Anastasia Kahn, former Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Major support is provided by Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, Eugenio López Alonso, and the MOCA Global Council.

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About the Artist

Ana Segovia produces images through paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular imaginaries. The artist revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, reconfiguring their hegemonic role as idealized models of masculinity. An intimate connection to cinema constantly inspires and drives him to transgress norms.

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About the Gallery

MOCA Grand Avenue is the primary downtown site of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), an institution devoted to contemporary art from the mid-20th century to today. Located at 250 South Grand Avenue on Bunker Hill, it anchors a cluster of cultural venues that includes Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Broad in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

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250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
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Thursday, 11am – 8pm
Saturday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm
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Los Angeles 250 South Grand Avenue
MOCA Grand Avenue contemporary art institution in Los Angeles United States
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
+1 213 626-6222
http://www.moca.org

Opening hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 11am – 5pm
Thursday, 11am – 8pm
Saturday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm
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