Richard Medina: Sex Land Power

November 20, 2016

Richard Medina’s work takes the form of paintings, sculptures, performances, and videos. In his practice, he invests in rigid existing structures and uses them to generate new work. Medina has a fascination with the American Southwest as a cultural, historical, geographical, and topographical site. In particular, he is drawn to artwork that deals with the iconography of the West and speaks to the problematic nature of a space practically designed for hyper-masculine roles and rituals. Medina finds Westerns interesting for this very reason. Films that exist in a vacuum of tropes and archetypes that are purely fictional but are nonetheless trapped inside a historical time period often burrow deeper into their genre instead of attempting to transcend their boundaries, creating and recreating settings and situations—concepts of landscape as it relates to the American Southwest.

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Richard Medina