Ruben Ochoa Art Share by Gabe

Ruben Ochoa

• -lives in LA and uses industrial materials
• -concrete like LA
• -very civil engineering: “I like to look at civic engineering and see how functional/dysfunctional it is” -Ochoa
• -a lot of his work explores the way communities are divided by class and race, like how freeways divide communities in LA.
• -uses worker-type materials in his work: “The lower class, the construction class, the working class—the invisible class in a sense. They will know my materials.”

I really like the big scale, industrial feel, and parking lot type minimalism. I love how he explores the way that cities (like LA) are engineered in ways that divide people. I love how manly his work is. I think this type of material is really beautiful in a bleak way.