2006
two color lithograph with hand painting
20.5x 29.25 inches
edition of 45
each edition unique
$750
Courtesy of the artist, LA><ART and Cirrus

Comprised of a public intervention on a freeway wall, billboard project, and gallery exhibition, Extracted takes simulation and site specificity as its point of departure. Ochoa is critical of the social divide of the city, and his work is particularly geared toward the investigation of geography and gentrification in Los Angeles, specifically by investigating the form of the freeway wall. This edition was produced in conjunction with his exhibition at LA><ART in September 2006.

Ruben Ochoa currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2001. He has exhibited at the Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theatre in Los Angeles, Greyscale in San Diego, the Orange County Museum of Art’s California Biennial, the Project in Los Angeles, and Harris Lieberman gallery in New York. He has received awards from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee Foundation and the California Community Foundation. In September 2007, he will have a solo exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.