MICHAEL ESPINOZA
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About the Artist

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Michael Espinoza is a non-binary, multi-racial, multi-disciplinary artist whose work embodies and embraces the undone artistic practices of Queer Ancestors lost to persecution, disease, fatal sadness, and closets. Their current practice utilizes embroidery, quilting, digital media, sculpture, and photography to explore sex and sexuality, intersectional identities, intimacy, the body, and contact with the dead. They have previously exhibited live performance, site-specific installation, and video. Their work can be found in public art collections, digital spaces, domestic and international group shows, and the many spaces intended for queer joy. Michael is a current artist in residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles; they live and work in Portland, OR.

From the Artist

My experience of queerness is miraculous, varied, connecting, and complicated. With recent bodies of work I am focusing on some of the tensions that arise as a consequence of living in an intersectional body: tensions between showing and hiding, material and representation, seeing and not seeing, feeling and perceiving, and indeed between vitality and death…
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About Instant Gratification

This body of work materialized over the course of 2 years as the artist explored various aspects of their relationship to intimacy, queerness, solidarity, sexuality, and love. As a group these works act as a confessional diary of the many intersecting lives of queer people experiencing joy. There are also works in this group that complicate the realities of queer joy by exposing the forlornness of empty beds…
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Gallery Guide

Jonah Polaroid Diptych

2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x8" in a 12.25"x14.5" frame

Adam Polaroid

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2022 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

David Polaroid

2023 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Winter Polaroid Diptych

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2023 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x8" in a 12.25"x14.5" frame

Aftermath Polaroid IV (Jonathan & Sunshine)

2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Aftermath Polaroid V (Chris & Nico)

2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Aftermath Polaroid II (Self)

2023 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Aftermath Polaroid III (Jonathan & Sunshine)

2023 i-type polaroid, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Jonathan Polaroid Diptych (Jonathan's Closet)

2023 polaroid i-type & cotton embroidery

5"x8" in a 12.25"x14.5" frame

Molly Polaroid Diptych (Self Portrait with Molly)

2023 i-type polaroid, cotton embroidery

5"x8" in a 12.25"x14.5" frame

Zach Polaroid

2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Ruby Polaroid

2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Jaime Polaroid I

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2022 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Javi Polaroid II

2023 i-type polaroid, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Nathan Polaroid

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2024 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Rob Polaroid Diptych

2024 i-type polaroid, polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x8" in a 12.25"x14.5" frame

Coty & Duncan Polaroid

2023 polaroid 600 & cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Trevor, Adam, & Wanderlust Polaroid

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2024 polaroid 600 & cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Sunray Polaroid

2024 polaroid 600 & cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Polaroid I (unknown)

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2023 polaroid 600, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

Polaroid II (unknown)

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2023 i-type polaroid, cotton embroidery

5"x5" in a 9"x9" frame

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