Michael Espinoza
Instant Gratification by Michael Espinoza - CULTUREEDIT Collector's Edition
Details
Special Collector's Edition
Numbered and signed by the artist
Edition of 20
Each copy comes with an original polaroid by the artist
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A 68-image collection of works spanning 2022-2026, Instant Gratification is the highly anticipated inaugural publication of Espinoza's Polaroid and embroidery works.
Espinoza slowly hand-copies Polaroids with cross-stitch embroidery to show care for the ephemeral memories cast onto the surface of the instant photo. Subjects in this work are the artist’s lovers, friends, haunted places and intimacies in the studio, bedroom, beach, and beyond.
100 Pages
8" x 8"
Perfect Bound
Printed in Portland, OR, USA by Brown Printing
Michael Espinoza
Michael Espinoza (b. 1984, Colorado Springs, CO) 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.